CHERUB: The Killing
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| CHERUB: The Killing | |
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| 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 | 13 October 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0340894334 (first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | CHERUB: Maximum Security |
| Followed by | CHERUB: Divine Madness |
CHERUB: The Killing is the fourth novel of the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore.
[edit] Plot summary
After coming back from a mission with Shakeel, James is dumped by his girlfriend Kerry. As he leaves Kerry's room, he sees a blue-shirt CHERUB called Andy Langan, who is laughing at James' dumping. James hits Langan and pushes him up against the wall. For this, James finds his friends ignoring him, with the punishments of no holiday, suspension from missions, cleaning the mission preparation rooms every night for three months and having anger-management sessions with a counsellor.
Zara feels sorry for James, so she gets him a low-risk mission to get him out of the hell he's living in. For a second time, James is working with Dave Moss, a 17 year old black shirt. They are being sent to investigate Leon Tarasov who runs a garage. When they get to their flat in south London, Dave gets a job at the suspects Garage, and James gets a girlfriend called Hannah. Dave Moss also gets a girlfriend with Leon Tarosov's daughter. James then see's her naked after Dave and her have sex. Hannah tells James how her cousin, Will, fell of the top of the building more than a year earlier while they sleep together on the roof. Hannah tells her father that they had sex though because she wants to see his head explode. As James has no computer that she knows of, she gives him Will's old one.
Back home, James finds that Will had a CD with information about a robbery at a casino almost a year earlier. The theft totaled 90,000 pounds but is too small for what they are looking for. Dave later realises that if the Casino had an illegal floor with more gambling equipment that was also robbed, then there would be enough money to be what they are looking for. To help find more evidence to capture Michael Patel, CHERUB agents ex girlfriend Kerry Chang and sister Lauren Adams join the team.
James and Kerry started snogging although Kerry remains not talking to him. A few days later, Hannah reveals that after Will's death, Patel had deliberately ran over to the body and touched it, supposedly to see if he was still alive. James and Dave figure out that that policeman had killed Will. They tell their mission controller, John Jones, who gets a special section of the police to investigate. They do, and find out that Alan Falco, the retired evidence keeper, had destroyed the statements of the witnesses which contained evidence which could have Michael Patel arrested. In return for immunity from prosecution Falco returns the statements and Michael Patel and Leon Tarasov are arrested for murder of Will Clarke and for robbery of the Golden Sun Casino. James and Dave return to campus. On the way back to campus, Kerry and James make up as friends.
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