Bugs Books

Virgin have released 5 books (that I know of, I did hear that they'd also released the 2 series, but I don't know where I heard that from... sorry!) based on the first season episodes. They are...

Out of the Hive
Written by Paul Leonard, and is also the Episode Assassins Inc. From the back of the book...

"SACROS is a box of circuits that can control or cripple satellite communications. It's secure in a government base known as the Hive. But someone will stop at nothing to obtain it. And Nick Beckett is sure there's a traitor in the Hive.
Beckett is framed. He almost loses his life. He meets Ros, who runs a high-tech gadgets company called Gizmos, and her friend Ed, who positively enjoys taking life-threatening risks. And together they hunt the villains.
The BUGS teams is formed, and is immediately drawn into the vicious world of miniaturised weapons and customised viruses - one of which infects Ed. It's a race against time as Ros hacks into the computers of Cyberscope while Beckett chases a consignment of microbes that could exterminate the human race.
Life is never dull for the BUGS team. It's rarely even safe."

ISBN 0-7535-0015-9

All Under Control
Written by Sandy Mitchell, and also contains Down Amongst the Dead Men. From the Back -

"These days airliners almosy fly by themselves. When an untraceable influence takes temporary control of a plane's flight system and almost crashes it, computer failure is suspected. The arrival of a demand for £50 Million makes sabotage seem more likely - and the Bugs team is called in.
Meanwhile, an even larger amount of money is about to be stolen from the international banking system in fraud that invloves an ex-banker, his murderous wife, computerised financial transactions - and an obsolete submarine.
Ed, Ros and Beckett barely touch terra firma as their missions go from the airborne to the underwater."

ISBN 0-7535-00205

Shotgun Wedding
Written by Neil Corry, and also contains Stealth. From the Back-

"Anna Fabrizi is a new force in Italian politics: a popular crusader against courruption and crime. There are people who will stop at nothing to destroy her. As they protect Anna from assassins' bullets and smart explosive devices, the BUGS team become enmeshed in a web of double-crossing plots - and Ed is turned into a living bomb.
An even bigger bang threatens all three of the team when they are hired to protect the technological secrets of a new supercar - and they end up trapped in an unstoppable armoured vehicle with a nuclear power plant that's wired to explode.
Two nail-bitingly tense missions in one book - sheer dynamite."

ISBN 0-7535-0030-2

Hotmetal
Written by Liz Holliday, also contains Manna from Heaven. I don't have this one (yet!) so I can't really tell you what the back says...

A Sporting Chance
Written by Andy Lane, also contains Pulse. I don't have this one either, so same applies as above.

I got my copies from Virgin Megastore in Manchester, but I know that WHSmiths in MeadowHall used to sell them too... and maybe http://www.bookpages.com sells them too.

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