History Literature / SecretAgentsFour

* WaterSourceTampering: [[spoiler: Initially, Cobra tricks the protagonists into thinking they plan to put a drug (causing its victims to relive the last 24 hours, rendering them helpless) into the city milk supply. But their real scheme is to taint the water supply instead.]]

* FourTempermentEnsemble:

* MeaningfulName: The spy organization that Ken's dad belongs to is called Mongoose. The organization they're fighting is called Cobra.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Horseshoes. His "real" name is Jerry, which in turn is a nickname for Jeremiah.

* [[spoiler: TrickedIntoEscaping: Orv realizes this when he remembers that a guard at a window facing west remarked to his relief on the sun''rise'' on his way out. The other guard "looked" at it, thus purposefully giving the boys the chance to knock him out and get away so they could spread the false information they'd been given.]]

The protagonist is sixteen year old Ken Mullins, son of the assistant chief of the Miami bureau of Mongoose, a government agency. He and his friends Orv ("Dade City's top boy inventor"), Bo (a seven foot tall athlete), and Horseshoes (whose real name is Jerry..."[b]ut we haven't called him [that] since he won the horseshoe-pitching contest at the State Fair in eighth grade) pursue a man they believe to be a car spy - but who, in actuality, is a low-level Cobra agent.

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The protagonist is sixteen year old Ken Mullins, son of the assistant chief of the Miami bureau of Mongoose, a government agency. He and his friends Orv ("Dade City's top boy inventor"), Bo (a seven foot tall athlete), and Horseshoes (whose real name is Jerry..."[b]ut we haven't called him [that] since he won the horseshoe-pitching contest at the State Fair in eighth grade) pursues a man they believe is a car spy - but who, in actuality, is a low-level Cobra agent.

The protagonist is sixteen year old Ken Mullins, son of the assistant chief of the Miami bureau of Mongoose, a government agency. He and his friends Orv ("Dade City's top boy inventor"), Bo (a seven foot tall athlete), and Horseshoes (whose real name is Jerry..."[b]ut we haven't called him [that] since he won the horseshoe-pitching contest at the State Fair in eighth grade) pursues a man they believe is a car spy - but who, in actuality, was a low-level Cobra agent.

** Sanguine: Horseshoes
** Chloreric: Ken
** Phlegmatic: Bo
** Melancholic: Orv

* WaterSupplyTampering: [[spoiler: Initially, Cobra tricks the protagonists into thinking they plan to put a drug (causing its victims to relive the last 24 hours, rendering them helpless) into the city milk supply. But their real scheme is to taint the water supply instead.]]

* TamperingWithTheWaterSupply: [[spoiler: Initially, Cobra tricks the protagonists into thinking they plan to put a drug (causing its victims to relive the last 24 hours, rendering them helpless) into the city milk supply. But their real scheme is to taint the water supply instead.]]

* TamperingWithTheWaterSupply: [[spoiler: Cobra's real scheme - they plan to put a drug in the city of Miami's water supply. The drug causes the victim to relive the last 24 hours, rendering them helpless.]]
* TeensAreShort: Wildly averted by Bo, who's ''seven'' feet tall.

** None of the four boys go by the full form of their first name: Bo is short for Booker, Ken is short for Kenneth, and Orv is short for Orville.* TeensAreShort: Wildly averted by Bo, who's ''seven'' feet tall.

** None of the four boys go by the full form of their first name: Bo is short for Booker, Ken is short for Kenneth, and Orv is short for Orville.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The book starts out with the boys tipping off a Cobra agent.
* TeensAreShort: Wildly averted by Bo, who's ''seven'' feet tall.

* ActionGirl: Mary, who's trained in numerous kinds of martial arts.

* CuteBruiser: Mary.

* FunWithAcronyms: V.A.C.U.U.M. ('''V'''olunteer '''A'''gents '''C'''ruising '''U'''nsteadily '''U'''nder '''M'''ongoose). Mary's full title is V.A.C.U.U.M. B.A.G. ('''B'''eautiful '''A'''ssistant '''G'''gangbuster).

* FunWithAcronyms: V.A.C.U.U.M. ('''V'''olunteer '''A'''gents '''C'''ruising '''U'''nsteadily '''U'''nder '''M'''ongoose). Mary's full title is V.A.C.U.U.M. B.A.G. ('''B'''eautiful '''A'''assistant '''G'''gangbuster).

* ChildrenForcedToKill: Horseshoes has to kill a guard and struggles with himself over it. [[spoiler: Fortunately, it turns out he didn't actually kill the guy.]]

* ChildrenForcedToKill: Horseshoes has to shoot a guard and struggles with himself over it. [[spoiler: Fortunately, it turns out he didn't actually kill the guy.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Horseshoes. His "real" name is Jerry, which in turn is a nickname for Jeremiah.

''Secret Agents Four'' is a 1967 book written by Donald J. Sobol, the author behind Literature/EncyclopediaBrown and Literature/TwoMinuteMysteries. The book concerned four high schoolers