Clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country, 13-year-old Otto Malpense is a perfect candidate to become a villain.
With the help of his new friends: an athletic martial-arts expert; a world-famous, beautiful diamond thief; and a spunky computer genius -- the only other people who seem to want to leave -- can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.
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But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six-year program, and leaving is not an option.
Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101.
All the kids are elite; they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country.
The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades.
That is why he ends up at H.
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He is the perfect candidate to become the world\'s next supervillain.
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. (Higher Institute for Villainous Education) selects Otto to be kidnapped and tutored in the art of villainy.
Nero, the headmaster at H.
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Clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country, 13-year-old Otto Malpense is a perfect candidate to become a villain
