The multicultural array of staff and students Walden has created exude a cartoonish brand of over-the-top villainy reminiscent of Austin Powers or James Bond. The foursome conspire to escape their captors, and engineer a plan to return to their old lives. Otto, who has a photogenic memory, quickly befriends Wing Fanchu, a martial arts expert Laura Brand, an expert with electronics) and Shelby Trinity, a dextrous jewel thief. Nero, the institute’s founder, introduces the new students to the institute, located in a sprawling underground complex on a volcanic island. He soon discovers that he and a few hundred other teens have been abducted by the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, a secret school committed to nurturing youth with “a special talent for the supremely villainous.” Dr. Otto Malpense, a 13-year-old orphan, awakens aboard a helicopter with no memory of how he got there. Ischievously talented teenagers star in Walden’s debut novel, which envisions the educational training of future megalomaniacs and criminal masterminds.
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