Hildy, Luca and Ryan leave school, not a care in the world, heading for Hildy's house as they usually do to do homework, listen to music and hang out. When Hildy empties her bag, she finds a mysterious package. In the package is a small electronic component and a map grid reference with the word: URGENT written on the paper. What on earth is it? The three children are very confused. Maybe they should take it to the police?

Mark Wright's Teen Read, Deadly Mission, has been crafted for an audience with a reading age of 7-8 years and an interest age of 12-15 years, using carefully controlled vocabulary and shorter paragraphs and sentences.

The main protagonists face some difficult decisions in this dark yet exciting tale, and it soon becomes apparent that they may have unwittingly become entangled in an adult mission and are somehow now the hunted ones...