Monday, March 5, 2012
CHERUB: The Sleepwalker
As I can remember, this is the 8th book of the CHERUB series, a series about an organization located in rural England, that uses children to infiltrate terrorist and other crime organizations to break down what is going on, and eventually get them busted. But that's the cache, not many people would suspect children of spies and espionage. In this book, at page, I believe 100, quite a lot has happened for such a small amount of pages. So to start it, the book starts from the perspective of two children named Angus and Megan, both Scottish, with their mother Karen. Their family is on a flight from New York City to London, and during the flight, things go a bit wacko. First, Angus and Megan, both under 12 years of age, start fighting, but stop when the plane all of a sudden starts to hit some "turbulence" and does a barrel roll, but then smooths out again. Now everyone starts to freak out, and later, the plane starts to loose altitude and crashes into the ocean, killing everyone on board. But there is a strange occurrence that marks the significance of this crash, it is on the six year anniversary of 9-11. Then the point of view goes back to James Adams, our main character on the CHERUB campus. He has now become a more "punk" looking kid, wearing ripped clothing and such, and he has been assigned to do some over the weekend work to prepare for his future with he ex girlfriend, who would and could rip his guts out any time. But while James is walking to his job one day, he notices that CHERUB's last Head Director, a man named Mac, is at the campus for some reason. Now this shocked me a little, he's there because he's having a mental breakdown and can't live alone now, because his Daughter in Law and Grandchildren died in a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean. Coincidence? Yes. So this is how far I am now, and the book has totally reeled me in.... I cannot wait to get back to it.
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