BOOK REVIEW: Eagle Day(Robert Muchamore)Hendersons boys book 2

Book: Eagle Day

Author: Robert Muchamore

Rating: 7/10

recommended age: 12+

In the second installment of Henderson's boys, Henderson and the kids he was with in the first book are stuck in France after Henderson and Marc were refused entry to the boat due to Marc's lack of passport. Then a few miles out of Bordeaux and the documents the kids were carrying are lost to the water. Fortunately they survive and regroup with Henderson and joined by the American teen PT. Staying with Maxine(a assistant of the British consul)  they originally plan to head south into Spain. But that changes

Now heading north into the military zone Henderson is tasked with gathering intelligence for the British government on the German occupation.

By a stroke of luck Henderson's considerable language skills get him a position as a translator for the oberst in charge of organising the invasion of England in the north of France. This is perfect, but with the Germans on the looks out his life gets much harder.

Sending secret radio transmissions, some of the others getting arrested for peeing in a car, long work hours and growing suspicion  lead him to one course of action.
They must escape back to England.

But before they go they must do something to help sabotage the invasion plans and scupper the Boche barge fleet. they make a daring scheme to set of a number of explosions and phosphorus bombs in the main dock yards whilst a British air raid attack comes in in the dead of night therefore making it easier to hit the boats and less likely the planes will get shot down. The only thing is they will have to leave from a small harbour on a tug boat at the same time the British are bombing them.

And what other complications will occur?

Read this book

it is a very good second book of the series focused even more on the spying side of the operations and the various problems the Germans had. It is a very worthwhile read but you absolutely have to read the first book first or else you will find it rather tricky working out the characters.


see my review on The escape(book 1) at http://devonianbookreviewer.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-review-escaperobert-muchamore.html

Hope you found this review helpful,

The Devonian  Reviewer


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