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Monday, 14 March 2011

BOOK REVIEW: THE ESCAPE(Robert Muchamore) Hendersons Boys series

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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6 comments:

  1. can some one help me
    was the author succesfully in dillver the mesage

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    1. sorry but I don't understand what you are asking,
      can you rephrase or elaborate it please?

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  2. i mean was the author succesfully in deviring the measage about the book the escape

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    1. if you mean was hesuccessful in writing a good story about espionage in WW2 then yes, although I'd say his later books are prehaps even better

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