Author(s): Charlie Carter

Children & Young Adult

Classified information - Agent's profile:
Code name - Battle Boy 005 (BB005); Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe; Age: 11 years old;
Assignment: Operation Battle Book;
Controller: Professor Juanita Perdu;
Duty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD);
Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgets;
Mission directive: To spy on the past;
Mission 4: Bloodaxe. Dark Age England, 954. Bloodaxe was the Viking King of York, a fierce and uncompromising leader.
BB005 jettisons into the Viking camp and, with the help of Viking FightRite 101, defends himself against Bloodaxe's son Haeric.
Mission objective: collect Bloodaxe's DNA and record his famous last battle.