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SECRET AGENT MUMMY

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Full Name: Secret Agent Mummy
Nationality: British
Organization: Unknown
Occupation Agent

Creator: Steve Cole
Time Span: 2014 - 2016

ABOUT THE SERIES

Secret Agent Mummy is an agent for, well, we really don't know.

Niall Rivers is a kid-next-door.

Let's discuss Rivers first. That is about a prosaic as I can imagine an introduction to be. But he is just a young boy, probably in his tween-years and nothing to really make mention of. In fact, we would not be talking about him at all if it wasn't for the small figurine. It was small enough to fit in the palm of young Niall's hand and it looked decidedly like a Egyptian human though a very strange face of a monkey or baboon or some such.

Setting the stage a bit better, we have Niall going around the neighborhood "collecting bric-a-brac for the school fete" that weekend and the owner of an old, smelly house had a ton of stuff to donage. Mom came out of that house carrying far too much and some things dropped and the figurine was one of them and when Niall picked it up, he got kinda zapped and saw weird colors in his head and he felt really odd for a moment. And that was all. Except the next morning he looked out at the house next door, empty for months, but what he saw was a pyramid! Mind you, his Mom and his younger sister, Ellie (he calls her Snitch for pretty obvious reasons, that little tattletale!) saw the house, not the pyramid. After that we start learning along with Niall that he can see things that others can't.

Which segues us back to Secret Agent Mummy (SAM). SAM, codenamed SAM-117, describes himself to Niall when they first formerly introduce themselves as "a two-thousand-year-old detective tracking down the enemies of my land". He does not give his actual name because "it is a very complicated name and I have forgotten it" [if he forgot it, how does he know it is complicated? Odd!]. He also lets Niall know that the pyramid already mentioned is really the "Pyra-Base", his portable Pyramid Base of Operations which travels wherever he does, "by most mystical means" and no one is supposed to be able to see it but, of course, Niall can.

SAM and his strange assistant, Mumbum (a robot mummy dog whose only organic part is his rear end - don't ask), come from another dimension, two over from ours, and he is on the hunt for a really bad guy who popped into our dimension and is causing trouble and .... well, if you need to know more, I suggest you read the stories.

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Number of Books:4
First Appearance:2014
Last Appearance:2016

1 Secret Agent Mummy Secret Agent Mummy
Written by Steve Cole
Copyright: 2014

"What could be crazier than a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy detective moving in next door? How about: An army of brainwashed baboons? A flying bandaged dog's bottom? A talking cat goddess? An evil sorcerer from another world? Somehow Niall Rivers has got to deal with all of them. Still, it's not the end of the world.... Is it?"

2 The Cleopatra Case The Cleopatra Case
Written by Steve Cole
Copyright: 2015

"One boy. One mummy. One mad, bad mission.
Cleopatra's tomb has never been found - until now. And you won't believe what's been hiding inside. Sam the secret agent mummy must take on a statue that bites; an undead empress with unfinished business; terrifying intergalactic lizard men; and an ancient plot that threatens all life on Earth.
Sam calls on his best friend, Niall, for help. Together they'll save the planet for sure...won't they?"

3 The Hieroglyphs of Horror The Hieroglyphs of Horror
Written by Steve Cole
Copyright: 2016

"Niall Rivers's life changed for ever when he met a strange, clumsy figure wrapped in bandages, and now his adventures with the last surviving ancient mummy detective continue.
This time, the pair are up against: a bunch of snap-happy crocodiles; some spooky magic symbols; a tartan-clad McMummy and a power-mad Ancient Egyptian god.
Could it be CRUNCH TIME for the Secret Agent Mummy?"

4 The Ghost of Tutankhamun The Ghost of Tutankhamun
Written by Steve Cole
Copyright: 2016

"Niall Rivers's life changed for ever when he met a strange, clumsy figure wrapped in bandages, and now his adventures with the last surviving ancient mummy detective continue, this time featuring Egypt's most famous boy king, Tutankhamun.
When King Tut's computer game obsession threatens to imprison Niall's reality in an Ancient Egyptian console for ever, it's time to call on a bit of mummy magic to help Niall to save the day. But will Sam's yearning for his old homeland conflict with his desire to help his new best friend?"

MY COMMENTS

For young adult spy series, I try to put myself in the frame of mind of the kid I was once, so very long ago. Would I have liked it? Would I have wanted the next book in the series? Like that.

With this one, not so much. Quite a bit too silly for me and I am capable of a good amount of silly. I made it through the first adventure and tried the second but ... nope, not for me.

When it comes to Secret Agent Mummy, I just could not (sorry about this) wrap my head around the idea. Maybe real kids of the right age did, but I could not.

GRADE

My Grade: C

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