The Hunt for Ned October-Illustrated-Prose Verse Rhyme and Novel versions-Children's books. Little 6 yr. old Billy buys a small green turtle who he named Ned October, accidently gets flushed down the toilet into the bleak, black sewers and tries to find his way home to Billy, while Billy and his friends try to find Ned. Also looking for Ned are two Russian spies who had injected him with a microchip that contained the US's top secrets of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons technology. Billy, Ned and the Russian spies have many harrowing experiences in their Hunt for Ned October.