H.I.V.E. is a series written by Mark Walden. Started in 2006 with Higher Institute of Villainous Education, it tells of the titular organization.
Major characters[]
- Otto Malepnse
- Wing
- Cypher
- Nero
- The Contessa
- Laura
- Shelby
- Raven
- Nigel
- Diablous Darkdoom
- Number One
- Overlord
- Furan
Books within[]
Higher Institute of Villainous Education[]
Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world's next super-villain.
That's why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class. Inside a volcano on a secluded island, Otto, along with his elite peers - the most athletic, technologically advanced, and smartest kids in the world - will be enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion.
But then Otto realizes that he's entered a six-year program; where leaving is not an option.
Can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.?
Overlord Protocol[]
When Otto and Wing are allowed off campus for Wing's father's funeral, they have no idea it's a trap masterminded by Cypher, the most ruthless supervillain any of them have ever known.
Cypher intends to use them to track down the Overlord Protocol, a device that has the capacity to help him take over the world. Otto is determined to stop him.
The fate of the world, as they know it, lies in Otto's hands. How far will Otto go to protect his friends and stop Cypher?
Escape Velocity[]
Nero is kidnapped by H.O.P.E., the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive, a new anti-terrorist organisation, and the Contessa takes over H.I.V.E. as headmaster. Otto, Wing, Laura, Shelby and Raven are forced to escape the school and join forces with Diabolus Darkdoom, Nigel's supposedly dead father, who takes charge from a massive submarine known as the Megalodon. However, it soon emerges that Overlord, inside Number One's body, is behind the entire plot. Otto isNumber One's clone, designed as a perfect host body for Overlord. He only narrowly escapes being taken over and is forced to deleteH.I.V.E.mind in the process. Meanwhile, H.I.V.E. is invaded by Number One's personal executioners known as the Reapers. When the Reapers land in the hangar bay and all hope seems lost, the Contessa sacrifices herself to save the school by setting off a massive puddle of jet fuel.
Dreadnought[]
The world's most powerful villains have a problem. One of their own has gone rogue and is threatening global Armageddon, with himself at the head of a sinister new world order.
Meanwhile, Otto, Wing and other students at H.I.V.E are en route to a training exercise in the Arctic known as the Ninety-three Percenter, owing to the proportion of students who make it back alive.
But before they arrive, events take over and the ship they are on is attacked. Otto, Wing and his most trusted villain-friends are in the sights of a G.L.O.V.E rogue member and the Disciples all in one. Both of them are set on world domination, and Otto and his friends have nowhere to run.
Rogue[]
The leaders of the world's villainous forces are being picked off one by one in a series of mysterious attacks, and Dr. Nero is forced to take temporary control of G.L.O.V.E. when Diabolus Darkdoom is seriously injured.
He then discovers that Otto, who has now been missing for several months since Dreadnought, is leading the attacks. Under pressure from the remaining members of the ruling council, Nero is left with no choice but to issue a capture or kill order for Otto. Wing learns of the order and persuades Raven to allow him to join her on her mission to retrieve Otto. Other members of the ruling council, suspicious of Nero's relationship with the boy, have initiated their own missions to eliminate Otto. Wing and Raven find themselves in a deadly race against time to track Otto down before the other G.L.O.V.E. assassins get to him. Their pursuit takes them to a secret facility hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest, where they face a mysterious operative even deadlier than Raven.
Meanwhile, back at H.I.V.E., the school's own automated defence systems turn against the pupils and staff. And there is no one there to stop it.
Zero Hour[]
Otto Malpense is in peril. The evil AI Overlord has developed the ability to move from body to body, but only Otto can contain him and survive. Overlord will stop at nothing to locate him and when he does no one will be able to stop him.
Dr. Nero must activate Zero Hour, a plan designed to eliminate any villain on the brink of global domination.
Nero knows that Otto must not be allowed to fall into Overlord's hands.
The stage is set for the final battle...
Aftershock[]
Scheming, extorting and general evilness are nothing new in the world of villainy - indeed it is expected. But there are certain codes of conduct. These codes have been followed - until now.
In an attempt to purge G.L.O.V.E. of its more destructive elements, Dr. Nero has underestimated the cunning and resources of those who oppose him.
Meanwhile, Otto and rest of the Alphas at H.I.V.E. (along with a few new arrivals) are preparing for the most feared training exercise: The Hunt.
But there is a traitor in their midst.
The first strike against Nero will be a strike against the Alpha Stream, villain-kind are on the brink of Civil War...
Deadlock[]
Otto and Raven are desperate to rescue their friends from the clutches of Anastasia Furan, head of the evil Disciples deadlock. First, they must track down the location of the Glasshouse, the prison where Furan trains children to become ruthless assassins.
But Otto is also being hunted. The past three months that Otto has spent away from H.I.V.E. have given the Artemis Section an opportunity to locate him. The Artemis Section is an elite division of the American intelligence services that specialises in capturing the toughest targets.
They report only to the President.
Bloodline[]
As the students of H.I.V.E. face the challenges of their final year at the school, Otto Malpense is forced to confront his own legacy as a new threat rises from the shadows of his past.
Old wounds will be reopened, and dark, hidden secrets will be revealed as H.I.V.E.'s enemies seek a final, ruthless revenge against the school. Otto and his friends face a desperate, deadly fight against an enemy more powerful and dangerous than any they have faced before - a twisted product of his own bloodline. Nothing will ever be the same again...