The General

CHERUB is a branch of British Intelligence, where its agents are kids aged ten to seventeen. James Adams, one of the agents of CHERUB, starts his mission by taking part in a demo organised by the leader of the SAG (Street Action Group), Bradford. Afterwards, he becomes Bradford’s bodyguard for a meeting with a gun supplier. However, the police arrive unexpectedly and arrest everyone during the meeting, resulting to fail in James’ mission. Meanwhile, James’ sister Lauren and some of the younger agents become successful in their mission, which is to test the security of an air traffic control centre.

Back in campus, James, Lauren, and other agents gets selected to be part of a team in the Fort Reagan exercise. Fort Reagan is the world’s largest urban warfare training compound, and the exercise is a two-week exercise with forty British commandos, against the American soldiers, with weapons restricted to paint guns and grenades. Kazakov, who is the commander of the agents, as well as being an anti-American, uses all the tactics he can to beat the Americans. These tactics are effective, making the Americans become overrun and suspend the exercise only after two days. However, these tactics were controversial, so he and James, who was involved a lot in his tactic are asked to leave before the exercise restarts. In the free time they have, Kazakov persuades to help him play blackjack in Las Vegas. James almost gets caught, but they end up winning $92,300.

This is the tenth book of the CHERUB series, and they all of the books never failed to get my interest. This book, of course, was also very thrilling, although somehow it took me nearly three weeks to read. I recommend this book to everyone, though it would be better to understand if you start from the first book, like all series books. :) Also, just a random thing, my computer failed to open the blog more than ten times yesterday and restarted itself about seven times. That was fun.