CHERUB: The Fall
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| CHERUB: The Fall | |
| Author | Robert Muchamore |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Genre(s) | Children's, Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Publication date | 15 March 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 324 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0340 91170 0 (first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | CHERUB: Man Vs. Beast |
| Followed by | CHERUB: Mad Dogs |
CHERUB: The Fall (2007), is the seventh novel from the popular series CHERUB by Robert Muchamore.
[edit] Plot summary
An MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong when two agents working with James Adams murder their prime suspect, and he is trapped within Aero City, Russia. He is not able to contact campus and when he attempts to he is beaten up badly by a group of Russian thugs. They have heard of a reward offered for James' capture, and as such they call the hotline. A short while later, a man appears, hands them their reward and bundles James into a car.
Once they are driving, he reveals himself to be a CIA agent working undercover, and takes James back to his flat where he treats the boy to the best of his ability before challenging him as to why he was there, and why the suspect was killed. When James protests that their intentions were peaceful, he is shown CCTV footage of the murder. The agent lets James call CHERUB campus before he leaves, telling him not to go to sleep at any cost.
Ewart appears a while later and takes James to an airfield where two British servicepeople are to help with their escape. The Russian authorities appear, though, and they are forced to take the couple with them. On the flight, James passes out when air trapped in his broken nose expands due to air pressure changes and the pilot ends up making an emergency landing in Helsinki, Finland. Half a week later, James wakes up in hospital on CHERUB campus, to the relief of Lauren and Kerry.
Once he is up and about, James is made to choose between helping junior cherubs preparing for Basic Training or a course in socioeconomics. James chooses the PE training, and is asked to 'help' a redshirt who is scared of heights. Bruce Norris helps, but breaks his ankle falling from the height course. However, while this freaks James out, the redshirt gains confidence and soon decides to try the height course alone. He succeeds, and James is rewarded for his work by having his history GCSE pass guaranteed.
Meryl Spencer and some of James' best friends get together and organize a day out and they think he deserves it after all he went through. James has no idea what is happening until he gets a message from Meryl. It says to come to her office in old clothes. James is scared as he does not know what it going to happen to him. When he goes down he learns that all his friends has put together enough money and vouchers to go to a fancy hotel. Firstly they go motorcarting and later they go a Spa Hotel where they get drunk and James pressures his girlfriend Kerry to have sex with him. She refuses and leaves, but forgives him the next morning.
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, making friends with a young Russian girl named Anna, a victim of a brutal human trafficking operation. The mission is categorized at Low Risk but, the Anna still manages to call the traffickers thinking they know where her younger brother is who she has been searching for since she was in England. Anna calls through Lauren's mobile phone and the traffickers manage to track the phone. John Jones tells Lauren that the traffickers are on to her and she better go to a restaurant with Anna and wait. But it happened too late and the traffickers take Lauren and Anna with them despite being among many pedestrians in the street. Then they take the two girls to a Victorian building where other girls aged 12 to 20 from parts of eastern Europe are forced to have sex with men at the bar. Lauren manages to hide her phone in her knickers but they find it. Keith tries to rape Lauren but she struggles and ends up stabbing him. She escapes with some of the girls but she gets pepper spray in the face by the manager while the police raid the building. Most of the girls are sent back to Russia and other eastern European Countries. Lauren comes back to CHERUB Campus still shaken from these events.
After the Russia disaster, James has been suspended from all missions and after a talk with one of the teachers, he suspects Ewart, the mission controller, for betraying him. James asks Kerry to help him investigate, but refuses, so James goes alone. While looking through Ewart's office, James is caught by Dana, another CHERUB agent, who decides to help. From investigating some papers they found in the office, they find out that Ewart has been lying about how much evidence he had. After, Dana admits that she fancies James, and they end up kissing. However, as things develop Lauren walks in and sees James with Dana's bra in his hand.
The next morning Dana and James take one of the CHERUB's pool cars and follow Ewart who meets an old reporter who used to write stories about Lord Hilton a rival of Denis Obidin (James' mark from the Russia mission)and uncovered links that suggested that Lord Hilton was having people who endangered his son's political career and his own aeroplane business assinated. He has arranged for Ewart to be killed but James and Dana save his life for which Zara is very grateful. She apolgises for keeping James in the dark and awards him and Dana the black shirt. By now, James had decided that he wants to date Dana. When the new couple go to dinner, Kerry (who found out about their kiss from Lauren) starts a fight with Dana. A food fight breaks out as James stands there, grinning as all hell breaks loose around him.
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