Cherub 06 Man Vs Beast by Robert Muchamore

Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-29T22:32:06+00:00

Jo smiled. “It‟s good that you‟re both enthusiastic. But when you‟re planning a complex operation, every member of the team must show absolute commitment. The only way I can be confident that you won‟t back out under stress is if your abilities are put to the test.”

“Tested how?” James asked.

“If you accept the invitation to join our group, we‟ll assign you an operation to carry out with Tom and Viv. The task we set will be risky, but straightforward. If you perform it successfully, you‟ll be considered a paid-up member of our group and you might even get to see our faces.”

“Sounds fair,” James said.

“So, do you tell us about our operation now, or what?” Kyle asked.

Jo shook her head. “My colleagues will drive you back into town and you can expect to hear from us sometime within the next couple of weeks. I want you both to think seriously about what we‟re asking you to do.

“If you have any doubts, just say the word and you can walk. But once you‟ve made a commitment to our group, I expect it to be absolute. If one of you chickens out and ruins a major operation, we might have no option but to kill you in order to maintain security. Is that understood?”

James and Kyle both nodded.

“Shall we take „em back to the van?” one of the other women asked.

Jo nodded, but suddenly changed her mind. She stepped forwards and pointed the gun at James‟s black school trainers. “Are they leather?” she asked accusingly.

“Yeah my mum‟s always been veggie, but we only went vegan when we moved in with Ryan.”

Jo shook her head with contempt. “If I see you walking around with bits of dead cow on your feet again, I‟ll shoot your bloody toes off.”

DEBRIEF

Zara phoned Lauren on the bus from school and told her not to bring Stuart home that afternoon. Meatball greeted Lauren in the hallway, barking and wagging his tail, but the little dog found himself shunned as she rushed through the kitchen to find the cause of all the excitement.

“Unbelievable.” Lauren grinned once the day‟s events had been explained. Then her face dropped. “Pity I‟m not involved in any of this.”

James, Kyle, and Zara were leaning over the kitchen table. They‟d spread out a “40

Miles Around Bristol” map and the boys had made some educated guesses about where they might have been driven to, based upon the turns they‟d taken, the types of road, and the amount of time they‟d been inside ht evan.

The trouble was, Bristol is the intersection point of the M4 and M5 and a network of minor motorways that lead traffic cross the bridges into Wales. They‟d realized that the van could easily have branched off on a slip road and doubled back without the boys noticing, so the only real certainty was that they couldn‟t have made it much farther than thirty kilometers from the center of Bristol during the twenty-five-minute ride.

“Did you get the number plate of the van?” Lauren asked.

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