Hideout

 

Hideout by Gordon Korman

             Hideout is the fifth book in the Swindle series. If you haven't read the first four books, then stop reading now, because there is a huge SPOILER ALERT. Hideout is about a team of teenagers that formed in the first book. There is Griffin Bing. He is the Man With the Plan, and the group leader. His best friend is Benjamin Slovak. He is the team's tight space specialist, and suffers from a sleep disorder called narcolepsy, hence the need for his pet Ferret Face. Ferret Face's job is to administer a wake-up nip to his master whenever Ben starts to nod off. The final boy on the team is Logan Kellerman. He is the teams actor, and just general sixth man. Savannah Drysdale is the team's animal whisperer. She has a giant black and tan doberman named Luthor. Luthor is the dog on the front cover of all of the books. Melissa Dukakis is a masterful hacker, and general team techie. She is also very shy, and the team are her only friends. The final team member is Antonia Benson, who goes by her climbing nickname Pitch. Pitch can tackle any crag, cliff, or rooftop with ease, and is well known for it. In the first book they brought down the comic shop owner; S. Wendell Palomino, a.k.a. Swindle, and chased him out of town, and Savannah adopted his guard dog, Luthor.

          Unfortunately, Swindle has returned, and he wants his dog back. In Showoff (the fourth book) Luthor almost won the National Globe Kennel Society Dog Show, but he lost so epically that he is way more famous than the dog that actually won. So Swindle wants Luthor for the money, and he has manipulated the law in a way that it is impossible for Savannah to keep Luthor. Also, he has promised that when he has squeezed every last cent out of Luthor, he will go back to Cedar City and devote his large fortune to making the team member's lives miserable. So the team needs a really, really good plan. Fortunately, the team members are splitting up into pairs and all go to different summer camps. So they decide to hide the dog. Six kids. Three hideouts. One extremely large dog. What could possibly go wrong?

          I really loved this book (just like all the rest of them) and suggest it to people that like action books. I would give it an A+. I have loved all of the Gordon Korman books that I have read and think that he is a great author.