The first book in a hilarious new series with spies, supervillains, and gadgets galore from winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, David Solomons and brilliant illustrations from Spanish illustrator Miguel Díaz Rivas. 

Welcome to GoldenCliff, a stunningly beautiful coastal resort and possibly one of the most boring places on earth – according to Adam Stickland anyway. Since his parents decided to open the holiday park, Adam feels like he is single handedly bringing down the average age of the local vicinity. He longs for the summer holidays when his friends, Tyler and Zada, come to stay with their families. In the meantime, he has his dog, Rocket, and rabbit, Hoppenheimer, for company as he helps his parents with various odd jobs around the park when he’s not in school.

When the friends are finally reunited at the start of the holidays, their planned weeks of chilling out are quickly put on hold when they are tasked with an important delivery to the creepy old house down the coast. The mysterious new resident turns out to be Professor Goodspeed; a former Quartermaster, an inventor of unparalleled brilliance and the grumpiest man the friends have ever met. But he has a secret – he is in hiding from a sinister organisation who are trying to track him and his inventions down, to use for their own nefarious purposes.

When Zada accidentally reveals his location to the world, the friends are shaken and stirred into action to try and help the Professor. But what good are three teenagers and one very loyal (but dozy) dog against the evil former chiropodist Doctor Toe, and his S.O.L.E. agents?

Master of funny fiction, David Solomons, has truly outpunned himself with this fantastic new novel for ages 9+.