Casefiles 83 Toxic Revenge

[CalvinKnox]

As far as environmental themed casefiles go, Toxic Revenge is better than its immediate predecessor, Poisoned Paradise, but I find that it really doesn't fit the series.  If I had been reading the casefiles from the start (and not been the massive HB fan I am), I would be feeling pretty jaded with the lack of any serious attempt at a logical chronology.  It's felt like years since the Hardys battled terrorists in Dead on Target and Hostages of Hate (and several seasons have clearly passed), but now they're stuck mucking around in high school, which shatters my whole image of the Casefile Hardys.  In my opinion, it would have been a keen idea to have a little more differentiation between series. They could have been perpetual juveniles in the digests, but pros in the casefiles, working directly for the network like in Spies and Lies, or working with Fenton like in Road Pirates and the Operation Phoenix Trilogy. (Up the reading level a few years too, stat encroaching on the demographic that is about to be reading things like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler

[Bigfootman]

At this point the Casefiles were pretty much more violent digests. I actually suspect the ghostwriter for Poisoned Paradise wrote "Toxic Revenge" and "Deadman at Deadwood" due to all three books being extremely slow placed, overly preachy, and having obvious mustache twirling villains. "Toxic Revenge" even mentions "Poisoned Paradise".

[CalvinKnox]

Toxic Revenge is at least a logical mystery, pretty juvenile though.  Poisoned Paradise made no sense.  And the burger baron villain was ridiculous.