#10 Hostage Of Hate

[tomswift2002]

#10 Hostages Of Hate
Published December 1987

Plot: The Hardy's, Fenton Hardy and Callie Shaw are attending a Counter-Terrorism conference in Washington.  Callie is selected to be a passenger on an airplane that will be "hijacked" by a bunch of terrorists---terrorists that are played by law enforcement people in a demonstration.  Unfortunately the demonstration goes wrong and the plane is hijacked for real---with Callie on board. 

I'm currently reading this book.  It's interesting how early on in the series, besides having the books deal with more violent crimes than the Mystery Stories, the authors and editors were trying to get Callie in on the action.  Dead on Target & Cult Of Crime both had Callie joining in on the adventure, along with the other Hardy friends, and then See No Evil had Callie basically go it alone, and now Hostages Of Hate has Callie really involved.

[MacGyver]

I suspect the writers and editors wanted to have a stronger female presence in general.

[tomswift2002]

Yeah—-but as I recall after the first 20 book, they kind of left that behind.  I also wonder if Callie was a test for the Super Mystery'88 series.