Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Dedication
Map
Global Protection Force File on Jack Stalwart
Global Protection Force Internal Memo: Highly Confidential
Things You’ll Find in Every Book
The Stalwart Family
Destination: Arctic
GPF Animal Facts
GPF Fast Facts
GPF Guide to Saving the Planet
Secret Agent Gadget Instruction Manual
Chapter 1: The Frozen Land
Chapter 2: The Warming Planet
Chapter 3: The White Card
Chapter 4: The Blinking Lights
Chapter 5: The Headquarters
Chapter 6: The Man in Charge
Chapter 7: The Tech Guy
Chapter 8: The Hut
Chapter 9: The Find
Chapter 10: The Tipped Cane
Chapter 11: The Reason
Chapter 12: The Evil Plan
Chapter 13: The Saviour
Chapter 14: The Hole in the Ice
Chapter 15: The Director
Chapter 16: The Last Word
About the Author
Also by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Copyright
A team of GPF scientists has vanished while doing research on global warming in the Arctic. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart find and rescue them before the harsh weather, a dastardly villain, and a very hungry polar bear have their way?
Find out more about the Jack Stalwart series at www.jackstalwart.com
For everyone working furiously to halt climate change
GLOBAL PROTECTION FORCE FILE ON
JACK STALWART
Jack Stalwart applied to be a secret agent for the Global Protection Force four months ago.
My name is Jack Stalwart. My older brother, Max, was a secret agent for you, until he disappeared on one of your missions. Now I want to be a secret agent too. If you choose me, I will be an excellent secret agent and get rid of evil villains, just like my brother did.
Sincerely,
GLOBAL PROTECTION FORCE INTERNAL MEMO:
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
Jack Stalwart was sworn in as a Global Protection Force secret agent four months ago. Since that time, he has completed all of his missions successfully and has stopped no less than twelve evil villains. Because of this he has been assigned the code name ‘COURAGE’.
Jack has yet to uncover the whereabouts of his brother, Max, who is still working for this organization at a secret location. Do not give Secret Agent Jack Stalwart this information. He is never to know about his brother.
Gerald Barter
Director, Global Protection Force
Watch Phone: The only gadget Jack wears all the time, even when he’s not on official business. His Watch Phone is the central gadget that makes most others work. There are lots of important features, most importantly the ‘C’ button, which reveals the code of the day – necessary to unlock Jack’s Secret Agent Book Bag. There are buttons on both sides, one of which ejects his life-saving Melting Ink Pen. Beyond these functions, it also works as a phone and, of course, gives Jack the time of day.
Global Protection Force (GPF): The GPF is the organization Jack works for. It’s a worldwide force of young secret agents whose aim is to protect the world’s people, places and possessions. No one knows exactly where its main offices are located (all correspondence and gadgets for repair are sent to a special PO Box, and training is held at various locations around the world), but Jack thinks it’s somewhere cold, like the Arctic Circle.
Whizzy: Jack’s magical miniature globe. Almost every night at precisely 7:30 p.m., the GPF uses Whizzy to send Jack the identity of the country that he must travel to. Whizzy can’t talk, but he can cough up messages. Jack’s parents don’t know Whizzy is anything more than a normal globe.
The Magic Map: The magical map hanging on Jack’s bedroom wall. Unlike most maps, the GPF’s map is made of a mysterious wood. Once Jack inserts the country piece from Whizzy, the map swallows Jack whole and sends him away on his missions. When he returns, he arrives precisely one minute after he left.
Secret Agent Book Bag: The Book Bag that Jack wears on every adventure. Licensed only to GPF secret agents, it contains top-secret gadgets necessary to foil bad guys and escape certain death. To activate the bag before each mission, Jack must punch in a secret code given to him by his Watch Phone. Once he’s away, all he has to do is place his finger on the zip, which identifies him as the owner of the bag and immediately opens.
Jack’s dad, John
He moved the family to England when Jack was two, in order to take a job with an aerospace company. Jack’s dad thinks he is an ordinary boy and that his other son, Max, attends a school in Switzerland. Jack’s dad is American and his mum is British, which makes Jack a bit of both.
Jack’s mum, Corinne
One of the greatest mums as far as Jack is concerned. When she and her husband received a letter from a posh school in Switzerland inviting Max to attend, they were overjoyed. Since Max left six months ago, they have received numerous notes in Max’s handwriting telling them he’s OK. Little do they know it’s all a lie and that it’s the GPF sending those letters.
Jack’s older brother, Max
Two years ago, at the age of nine, Max joined the GPF. Max used to tell Jack about his adventures and show him how to work his secret-agent gadgets. When the family received a letter inviting Max to attend a school in Europe, Jack figured it was to do with the GPF. Max told him he was right, but that he couldn’t tell Jack anything about why he was going away.
Nine-year-old Jack Stalwart
Four months ago, Jack received an anonymous note saying: ‘Your brother is in danger. Only you can save him.’ As soon as he could, Jack applied to be a secret agent too. Since that time, he’s battled some of the world’s most dangerous villains, and hopes some day in his travels to find and rescue his brother, Max.
The word ‘Arctic’ comes from the Greek word ‘Arktos’, or ‘bear’
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The Arctic isn’t actually a country, but an area of land, ice and water north of the Arctic Circle
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The Arctic includes the northern parts of eight countries: Canada, Greenland, Russia, USA (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland
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Temperatures in the Arctic can range from around 15°C in the summer to minus 35°C in the winter
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Polar bears, seals, walruses, beluga whales, narwhal whales, reindeer, arctic foxes and wolves live in the Arctic
What every GPF agent needs to know
Global warming means that our planet’s overall temperature is rising – by as much as 6.4 degrees in the next hundred years
