It is the very near future and young people, with a wide range of skills and talents, are being offered places at an exclusive school, Deveraux College. On the surface it is just an ordinary college with the usual range of students and football players but if you look closely and long enough you will notice that the football team is just repeating the same plays over and over again.

When a specific group of students are brought to the school they find that they have become part of a very different kind of school – Spy High. A school for future spies.

Each year consists of 24 students split into 4 teams: Hannay, Solo, Palmer and, of course, Bond. The teams compete in a number of activities until they all graduate into full-fledged members of the secret services.

This year Bond team are struggling. For some reason they are just not gelling as a team. There is nothing for it, the tutors must take drastic action to force them together otherwise they will all fail.

The tutors decide to send Bond team on a camping trip to see if this will bring them together. However the team finds themselves in the middle of a dangerous situation where the fate of the world depends upon their ability to work together.

This book is good fun. It is rather reminiscent of the X-Men set in a college for talented youngsters who have their own particular personalities. There are also touches of Top Gun with the idea of team competitions within each graduating class.

The Spy High series is aimed at young adults and there is nothing in any of them to cause offence. OK, people die (sometimes in rather unusual ways) but all in all this series of books could be given to any young adult with no concerns.

Bond Team are made up of the usual "representative" characters: 3 girls, 3 boys. One Chinese-American, one black, one "ginger-Irish".

Whenever they are within the school grounds the students wear shocksuits, a skin-tight costume that give the wearer slight electrical shocks during combat training. It is quite reassuring that the young men definitely notice it when their female colleagues put these suits on!!!

The Frankenstein Factory is an entertaining distraction, one that I thoroughly enjoyed.