Book excerpt: Armed to the teeth with ninja know-how, this ultimate fighting force has one goal—to thwart the evil ringmaster's plans for world domination. Ninja-Boom! In Book 8, the Ninja Meerkats receive strange reports from the Australian outback. They fly down under to investigate and discover strange goings-on in the desert. Who else could be behind it but that top-hatted menace, the Ringmaster? He is building missiles to take control of the world. With boxing kangaroos and killer koalas—not to mention the Ringmaster's crew of deadly circus goons—the Ninja Meerkats are on deadly desert mission.