The General

Informationen zum Autor Robert Muchamore is a private investigator turned young adult author who has penned the Cherub, Rock War, Henderson’s Boys, and Robin Hood series. Visit him online at Muchamore.com. Klappentext "The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American batallion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve, he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents and fight the best war game ever. CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that kids are spying on them. For official purposes, these children do not exist"--Publisher.General CHAPTER 1 DEMO The anarchist organization known as Street Action Group (SAG) first came to light in summer 2003 when its leader, Chris Bradford, hijacked the podium at an anti-Iraq-war demonstration in London’s Hyde Park. Bradford urged a peaceful crowd to attack police officers, before setting light to straw-filled effigies of Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush. By 2006 SAG had built a cult following and was strong enough to begin staging its own antigovernment protests. These culminated in July with the Summer Mayhem March through central Birmingham. Dozens of cars were vandalized, windows were broken, more than thirty protesters were arrested and a police officer was stabbed. In the months that followed, prison sentences were handed down to several senior SAG members involved in the rioting. Heavy police presence wherever SAG planned to appear made staging violent protests increasingly difficult. Chris Bradford became bitter at what he called “state oppression” and an MI5 agent sent to infiltrate SAG made a shocking discovery: Bradford was trying to acquire guns and bomb-making equipment in order to transform SAG into a terrorist organization. (Excerpt from a CHERUB mission briefing for James Adams, October 2007) *  *  * It was December 21st, the last Friday before Christmas. The sky was purple and strings of lights dangled between Victorian lampposts on the pedestrianized London street. The pubs around Covent Garden tube station were crammed and office workers huddled in doorways smoking cigarettes. Teens gawped into shops well out of their price range and The Body Shop was full of miserable-looking men buying last-minute gifts. Shoppers and drinkers ignored a rectangular pen made from metal crowd barriers as they shuffled past, though some noted the irony that two dozen police officers in fluorescent jackets lined up to face thirteen protesters inside the barriers. James Adams was one of the thirteen. Sixteen years old, he was dressed in a bulky army surplus jacket and twenty-four-hole Doc Marten boots. His hair was shaved down to a number one on the sides and a shaggy, green-tinted Mohawk ran from his forehead down to the collar of his jacket. He banged his gloved hands together to fight the cold as cops gave him stern looks. Chris Bradford stood three meters away. Well built, Bradford had scruffy ginger hair, a baggy hoodie worn with the fluffy lining on the outside, and two cameras filming him. One was held by a cop, who walked the perimeter with a titchy camcorder. The other was a more impressive beast. It sat on the shoulder of a BBC cameraman and a lamp mounted on top shone its light in Bradford’s face. “So, Mr. Bradford,” BBC correspondent Simon Jett said. He had a silk scarf tucked into his overcoat and a microphone in hand. “Today’s turnout must be a disappointment. Many people are saying that the Street Action Group is on its last legs.” Bradford’s green eyes bulged and his shovel-size hands shifted towards the correspondent’s lapels. “Who’s been saying that?” he growled. “Gi...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Muchamore
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781481456661
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-5666-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cherub; Cherub
• Subject: Children's and young people's books