![]() Alianne in the Tortall series is a borderline example.His first 'mission' started out as a vacation after washing out of the local Barrayaran military acadamy and he only contacted his government after they filed treason charges over the whole Private Army Thing. He is definitely a wrong-place/wrong-time variant.Miles Vorkosigan starts out this way, though he gets to just shy of 30 before his career as a spy comes to an end.The Gallagher Girls book series trains teenage girls to be spies.CHERUB tries a lot harder to be realistic than most other versions of Teen Superspy. Alex succeeds because he is just very, very good at what he does, and very, very, very lucky. And in the third book, we learn that the CIA tried to do the same thing and failed miserably, with their teen super-spy getting killed almost immediately on his first mission. ![]() Because he is in the wrong place in the wrong time, he is recruited early because no one will suspect a child. He was secretly trained from birth-and, by "secretly", we mean not even Alex himself was aware that the activities in question were training-to carry the legacy of his uncle.
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