| Shadow Wave | |
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| Author(s) | Robert Muchamore |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Genre(s) | Children's, Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Publication date | United Kingdom August 26, 2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) (Paperback May 2011), Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 343 |
| ISBN | 978-0-340-95647-2 |
| Preceded by | Brigands MC |
Shadow Wave is the twelfth novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. It was published by Hodder Children's Books (ISBN 9780340956472) on 26 August 2010, and features the final mission of the long-standing central character James Adams. A limited edition of Shadow Wave, with an orange cover (designed by Callum East), was made available just at W.H.Smith. Details of Muchamore's plans to create a small three-book series called Aramov without James were revealed via a secret website detailed on the back pages of all copies of the book.
Contents |
Shadow Wave begins with James Adams working undercover with MI5 as a Brigands Motorcycle Club biker, trying to bring down its leader Ralph "The Führer" Donnington (continuing from the eleventh CHERUB book - Brigands M.C.). His girlfriend Kerry Chang is also working with him as an interpreter in a set-up weapons deal. The police surround them and the Führer tries to escape and ends up falling down a cliff and seriously damaging his leg. He is taken into police custody.
James returns to CHERUB campus to a wedding between some CHERUB staff and meets a lot of old CHERUB friends and staff, including his former girlfriend Dana Smith and retired agent Kyle Blueman. Kyle finds a mission briefing for James to act as the son of David Secombe, an important figure in the British Government who is negotiating a weapons deal with Malaysian Defence Minister Tan Abdullah when he come to the UK. Kyle tells James about how, when he was assisting in a CHERUB intensive training course in Malaysia in 2004, he met someone named Aizat Rakyat, a young boy who tells him about how Abdullah is demolishing native villages to make way for luxurious hotels. When the Boxing Day tsunami struck he used it to "evacuate" the villagers and used the land for more hotels. James is disgusted, quits the mission and joins Kyle in a scheme to embarrass Abdullah.
James' sister, Lauren Adams, and a younger agent Kevin Sumner are also going on the mission. James sneaks into Lauren's room in the early morning and installs a tracking device on her cellphone and is then about to leave to join Kyle when his friend Bruce Norris (who has broken up with his girlfriend Bethany Parker) agrees to join him. They go and meet Helena Bayliss, runner of charity Guilt Trips and journalist Hugh Verhoeven. Lauren and Kevin go on a shopping trip with the daughter and son of Tan Abdullah, and James, using the tracking device on Lauren's phone, invites paparazzi to their locations to embarrass Tan Abdullah's family.
Eventually, James leaves for Stanford University in California. When James returns to to London to visit Kerry and Lauren, they visit Gwen Choke's grave, and clean the tombstone up. The three of them leave after Kerry tells them that Gwen, if she could see them now, would be very proud of them.
In the epilogue of the book it is said that Bethany Parker is expelled from CHERUB because she breached security by continuing to have a relationship with someone she met outside campus on a mission. Kerry leaves CHERUB campus and joins James in Stanford University. Even though Kerry was suspicious that James cheated on her during his first year of college, he did not. Meatball is also revealed to have become a father of three puppies. Ron died from throat cancer shortly after being released from prison and James meets his dad after seeing his name on one of his school textbooks.
The book was released on 27 August 2010 in hardback edition, as well as 2 September in some locations. The release date of the paperback version is unconfirmed but cited as being around May 2011.[1] A special edition of the book is available at W H Smith with an orange cover.[2] The book is the second (after Brigands M.C.) to be released in hardback format, the Recommended retail price in the United Kingdom is £12.99.[1] The book is the last to feature the present list of main characters.[1]
The CHERUB series will continue with a set of three novels, named Aramov, featuring new main characters with appearances of characters from the original series. The first, titled People's Republic, is scheduled for release in August 2011. The second, Guardian Angel, is due for release in September 2012 and the third, Black Friday, in September 2013.[3]
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