Book: The Escape
Author: Robert Muchamore
Rating: 6.5-7/10
Recommended age: 11+
This book and the rest of it's series are a prequel to his amazing series of books called Cherub. But In
Henderson's Boys is based on a unit of British intelligence in World War 2. This unit is run by Charles Henderson. A professional spy who after the events of this book and the 2nd of the series set up a training camp. The only thing about this unit is that all the spy's are teenagers!
But In this book you follow 2 groups of people
Group 1 is
Paul and Rosie Clarke, 2 kids who are alone among millions of refugees fleeing the German advance. Their Dad having died in a bomb attack and in possession of a very important document. along and scared they find shelter with a priest but the German secret police won't give up that easily....
The second group is British agent Henderson and french orphan Mark Kilgour. Drawn together by chance they meet when Marc breaks into Henderson's house and is ruthlessly tortured by German gestapo who Rip out his tooth in their task to find Henderson. hours later Henderson arrives and helps Marc. But now they are in a race against time they must reach the Clarkes before the Boche, but they must also deal with the french scientist who created the documents.
All of this equals a firefights in a hotel, a motorbike race through the streets, sunk ferries people getting shot and a gripping first of the series that can only become better.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Reviewer
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