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I mean I would immediately forget my dead dad as well if a sexy, athletic, rich woman seemed like she thought I was cute.
I mean I would immediately forget my dead dad as well if a sexy, athletic, rich woman seemed like she thought I was cute.
Oh yeah, same. My dad would understand
Frank almost shoots Mike
The gun starts whispering to him
Frank, you better not mention that gun to ANYONE because I'm pretty sure you are committing like four different crimes having that gun in your pocket.
Pumping something, I'm sure
Frank is bold to assume Joe is that subtle.
Rage is clouding his judgement
"Well actually I was going to insert my penis into her orifices and rub it in and out to the point of issue, but I guess information is also something I could get."
Sex on the Norrmalm
Then the car explodes
Lol what did Joe say to make her this interested?
"Free passport"
Hijinks ensue when they realize they've actually gone to Abnorrmalm.
This is easily the least believable part of this story about teen detetives getting vengeance for their exploded dad.
Round 2
Joe is such a nerd most of the time I cannot believe for a second he has game this good.
The magic will end when Joe starts explaining how stupid women are
He must have said "I have cocaine. Would you like to do some cocaine with me?"
Models love cocaine.
Oh, it's so good to have the instantly resolved cliffhangers
Someone tries to run down the Hardys about 50% of the time they step onto the street.
And generally they love cordial offers to do frienship cocaine .
The Hardy Boys are the reason for every video on how to safely cross a street
This is what you get when you contract non-union assassins.
My dad would haunt me if I didn't.
Joe's boner will let him believe anything
Hahaha, this isn't even 50 pages later.
I would also be stunned that anyone would want to whack a nerd like Joe.
I want this to end up being Ilsa trying to kill them just because Joe is a dweeb
So her story checks out.
That car is just circling the block
"Look, for an hour he showed me his stamp collection, I thought that was an American euphemism for sex."
"He would NOT SHUT UP about Sacajawea quarters."
You aren't the two teens that blew up our operation in Kenya, right?
It's not like we have people here trying to kill you
If we did, they would have told us
Otherwise that would be ridiculous
"We only ship dull birds. It's policy."
"If a crayfish isn't seated in at least Comfort+, we bail on the whole flight"
It would also be great if they DO only ship animals above board but ARE trying to kill Frank and Joe because Ilsa's dad doesn't want her to fuck Joe.
Hmm, that's not the phrase
BURRRRRN
"Frank was feeling like a fifty-seventh wheel"
Frank can't count, which is strange for a robut.
He's never heard of the numbers 3 or 4
I expected him to not understand idioms and such tho.
So that scans.
Weird, but OK
Ilsa runs through the ship/hostel and instantly disappears
There's only one reason your rich sexy date takes you to a youth hostel in Stockholm. To score weed.
I dunno man...her dad blew up my dad but she's 19 with the body of a Nordic skier, and everything she does is automatically a Swedish-Thai stereotype because there's no one else like her. I think I'll date her for the summer and just see if her father's still part of an international crime syndicate hellbent on killing me.
Even then.........yeah give her a chance.
It's gonna tear Joe apart when he realizes Ilsa ordered the hit on his dad.
Really getting beaten in this one
Time for a swim
Yep. Youth hostel. Not a human trafficking ship
This is where Ilsa loses Joe. If you want to be his lover, you've got to get with his friends.
He'll have forgotten about it by the next set of books.
These assassins are getting more and more inept.
I mean he just took another hit, and lost the spring of 1988.
Ilsa's going to get car bombed, or "Joe'd"
That was close?
Cmon. People survive falling in water all the time.
Still more capable than The Assassins terrorist group
Joe's familiar is talking to him again
Strong hands grasped him from behind?? Joe, you fool, this isn't Sweden, it's Switzerland! You've fallen prey to French and Italian letches!
Letches with the best bread and pasta in town.
Joe is sold into sex slavery as "unkillable dumbass American bottom"
Some would consider that a blessing.
Meanwhile, Frank has gone to meet with Agent Fairchild
Is she a redhead?
He is a bald guy, so maybe
Frank realizes that Phoenix Enterprises might be involved!
Which they already knew!
And is the only reason they're in Sweden!
Did the ghost writer not read or write the previous book?!
Either the Hardys are forgetting basic shit or the writer is
The ghost writer of this chapter didn't read the previous ghostwriter's chapters.
Don't forget that!
The previous ghost writer set himself on fire in protest that he couldnt include Chet.
Yeah Joe, its pretty hard to believe she likes you and not you know..........is setting you up to be murdered.
Since every time you are around her you get another murder attempt.
Joe speak Swedish now too?
Joe, have you ever met a girl who wasn't involved in a crime?
INVOLVED? No.
Committing? Yeah a couple.
I wonder how long it's going to take to put that together
🤔
They realize they have to track down Orson Welles
Book nerds, I knew they'd be involved
John Grisham is playing hardball this time
Frank and Joe and Orson team up to take on The Grandmaster Lotus in a duel to the death.
MIIIIKKKE! NOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
HAAH! MIKE GOT PUTINED!
Taste polonium and rue, Mike.
The car then tucks the shiv into a pocket and drives off
"... In my... Lucky Charms... there's a... hidden prize"
"It's........a......decoder.........ring...........drink.............Ovaltine.........."
"Hey, get that dead body outta here!"
This driver is going to write an angry post on Nextdoor about teens hauling corpses in the street
Frank is well-versed in the Art of the Ninja
"Kids today don't even bother getting wheelbarrows for their corpses"
"Goddam Americans blocking traffic with corpses."
A 20-yo man thinking with his dick against all signs this woman who should not be attracted to him is plotting his death so soon after his father passes away is the most realistic thing this book series has ever done.
Back in my day we murdered people in alleyways and that was that see?
Trained terrorists or one incredibly inept concierge?
Good odds
Police are looking for a Saab with a tattoo of a teardrop.
17 year old child, but yes
"In fact," <gunshot> "there. No more guessing."
Oh yeah, standard assassin. "To whom it may concern" poison dagger.
He's EMOTIONALLY 20 because rage ages you.
"This time it wasn't a bomb"
"Our dad went out like a pussy!"
Shit, Joe, you know being blowed up isnt at all like being pizened right?
"What kind of a loser dies to an explosion, huh? I've exploded 54 times!"
Frank has seen Surviving Edged Weapons.
"Exploding is a woman's death"
Dad fought that explosion by clenching his muscles SO TIGHT.
Why didn't he just make a Superman pose and dive so the explosion blew him clear?
Excuse me, Swede, an American is present
Thank goodness Swedish cops are so easy to bribe.
"Mom can suck it"
"But I'm still not going to call her"
Probably just distracted them by throwing a live chicken into the interrogation room.
Women don't understand processing grief via anger. Thanks, Joe!
Joe is just upset he didnt have a chance to have his father/son death duel as is tradition.
The female mind does not understand vengeance, thought Joe.
We should have @VikingHotDog here to tell us how much of this book is just copied from an outdated tourist guide.
No joke, they see two men in leather jackets and it's defcon 1
Hahaha, scooped me to the last word.
Well done.
Out the window! The leathermen are approaching
wouldnt be the first time an American has felt threatened by the unsmiling denizens of a foreign clime.
Probably just Swedish Fonz tho.
They did hear a gun cocking noise outside their door, but this is funnier
Probably just a faulty light switch.
Does Frank still have the gun?
The word of the day is filigree
There are no rules this time, Joe. Let's run as fast as we can from the best lead into our dad's death. Jump a building if we have to.
I'm guessing he accidentally returned it with the tux rental
Jackie Chan jump! Jackie Chan jump!
Shit, they jumped all the way out of the atmosphere
That loud shattering noise is just Sweden's famous aggressive room service.
Frank and Joe riding a dirtbike over the rooftops of Stockholm.
Hurling pipe bombs.
Action!
Exclamation points!
Shingles!
Some Swedish housewife is killed by one of those stray bullets.
And the cycle of vengeance begins anew
Luckily these assholes could miss a stationary target at 15 feet
Just four people shimmying down a drain pipe
Time to steal a boat
They famously make strong drainpipes in Sweden
Well, it's not a fanboat or a jetski, but it'll do in a pinch.
Very comical
Suddenly it's the really problematic chase from Live and Let Die
Aw hell yeah it got all Miami Vice!
Might as well throw that money in the ocean, Frank
Frank and Joe hurling dynamite from the back of a speedboat!
Famous last words, "hey guys, how can the enemy beat us, they don't have this ONE specific thing"
Enter that one specific thing.
Joe's erection insists on a vast government conspiracy
The daughter of the guy who probably blew our dad up couldn't be involved
I mean Jellicoe also worked for the US government so its not that far fetched.
It's more farfetched than the evil company being respoonsible
🤔 I mean it could be the CIA, you can't prove its not the CIA.
I mean, this ghostwriter clearly doesn't understand what customs agents do
He seems to think they are involved in espionage
And have jurisdiction in Swedish policing?
Those friendly Swedish cops let them run a black site in the precinct basement
I was also thinking he was confusing Customs with like Interpol or something.
This is turning into the best season of South Park.
"We can't sleep where we both almost died. We'll sleep where only I almost died"
"Broken locks, threatening notes. You know, a party!"
That's how we party in Sweden, anyway
I mean they heard gunshots from the American's room, they just assumed that's how Americans party.
Also: here's a message for you
Prejudice really is everywhere, isn't it?
Frank has returned to the cooling touch of gunsteel
"To hell with that congressman. Time for titties."
Frank immediately shoots his own ankle because unbeknownst to him its a Ceska.
Very unobservant hospital staff
Nice try, baddies. You can't fool Joe about lunch. It's clearly dinner time.
Duh cos its clearly an attempt to finish him off.
Marvel reference. Hmmmmmmm
I don't want to say Peter David is responsible. But I do
I mean you dont KNOW he's a terrorist.
Phoenix only employs the best assassins
He could just be trying to kill you.
I will have such mixed feelings if Peter David wrote this
BOOOOO defenestration?! LAZY!
Even sadder, they're on the ground floor
INCONVENIENT!
1\5 stars, would not use this assassin again.
Really slapstick murder
*Benny Hill theme, distantly
Everytime they say "stomach," it means balls
It's happened like five times
Steven Grant
That's why they eat so much. Because their "stomachs" hurt
Well now we know these are Russian assassins
Weird, poisoning is usually exacerbated by hijinks
Wait, so was that assassin pushing him by his shoulders out while the boys grabbed the legs, like a forbidden Ying Yang symbol?
As we all know, agents of the US government have no power over teens
Especially teens involved in multiple international crimes
Damn kids and their international agendas!
Fairchild just didnt wanna pay to black bag them out of Europe.
Since the Berlin Wall came down that shit got expensive.
It's been 80 pages, better get back to this
"Yeah I keep a fully operational ICBM in the lobby, actually. For inspiration."
"I've got a prototype."
"Oh?"
"In my pa-"
"I'm not Ilsa."
That's not really how AI works, but OK
In the prototype weapon closet, obviously.
The idea of AI is that it learns, you can't just stick it on a CD and go "done"
This must be how computers learn to explode
Linska later sold his guidance software to Tesla.
Also you dont really need that shit in a guidance system? Its not hard, we had decent missile guidance since forever.
Wrong on a couple of points
This is AFTER they invented the Sidewinder and Ivan learned you can't dodge freedom unless you are under the horizon.
The guidance system is a string tied to the nose of the missile and the other end tied to the target
Frank really wanted to hear more of this villain nerd speech
That is maybe the most harsh I've seen these books be
Frank loves talking to the movie villain.
"War. War never changes. Bork bork bork."
This writer is going to some darker places than the others. Even the ones that cut Cassie in half and blew up Iola
I remember when we conquered Iceland
I have no doubt we have a military base there.
A large birdlike creature, possibly a bird.
They were all in their natural jacuzzis. They never stood a chance.
NERD RAGE
How the fuck are you gonna ship them if they can be damaged by standing too close?
LINSKA SMASH
Linska might be too stupid for this weapons manufacturing gig.
Fuckin' nitroglycerin missiles. They were so affordable!
They can be damaged specifically by Joe Hardy standing too close.
Aha hahaha
YES
YEEEEESSSSSSSS
Russia and China deploy their Joe Hardy clone armies.
FINALLY
Linksa got so pissed off at Joe he shot a missile at him.
Hahahah suck Hellfire, Joe.
Hard to blame him, really.
Enjoy the Afghan Special Express to Hell.
Boooo
Boooooooooooo
I know Joe can survive explosions
:BB: :OOO: :OO:
Joe........you are such an asshole.
Just have the fucker explode
They get clemency because their dad died under the triple payout of highly traumatic death
Okay so all we're missing is tax fraud red herring and that's bingo?
Glad that crisis lasted all of one page
I have $20 down this is one of Steven Grant's.
Joe's rage made the car blow up?
Would you even get in a vehicle in Bayport?
No me gusta "big brother"
These two dipshits need to start avoiding cars that aren't armored to hell.
The metal plate in Joe's head throws off the magnetism of the radar.
I'd definitely check to make sure it was never owned, rented or occupied by a Hardy.
"Also I got his wallet, lets order takeout on his credit card!"
"DEAD MANS PIZZA! WOOOOOOOO!"
"hey I almost died, but my credit score is gonna get FUCKED with this car, we need a story"
Sick, WordPerfect
All pre-owned Hardy cars are in the scrapyard
Or the lower stratosphere
Too early to make a Clippy joke too.
...what rental agency still rents to these guys?
Looks like we got his workout routines
Someone with loads of insurance fraud
The first paragraph says "this is the right file"
i don't think you need a word processor to make text files, boys
Time to get swole!
ARMNOTES.TXT is just his inconspicuous name for his slashfiction.
It's Mike's workout routine.