Man vs. Beast by Robert Muchamore

Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Law & Crime, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781417798889
Google: i09lPgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0340911697
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 2007-03-01T10:39:49+00:00

Adelaide Kent, Lauren thought, almost dropping her camera in shock.

Lauren was staked out in the bushes twenty meters from the barn. She wasn’t invisible, but you’d have had to look hard to see her, and if she was caught she could push the matchbox-size digital camera down the back of her underwear and pretend to be nothing more than a kid sister sticking her nose where it didn’t belong.

As James, Kyle, Tom, and Viv stepped into the barn to be searched by the two women, Lauren crept up through the bushes until she was directly in line with the rear of the van. She could easily be spotted from this distance, but it was the only way she’d get a shot inside the van when the rear doors opened.

She flipped the tiny camera into video mode, propped it on a branch, and tied it into position with the neck strap. When this was done, she dashed back to her original spot and slid a tiny remote out of her pocket.

James was the first to emerge a couple of minutes later. He pulled down his tracksuit bottoms and started peeing against the side of the barn. By the time he’d finished, the others were heading towards the rear of the van. Lauren hit record on the remote as Jo opened the rear doors.

“Looks comfy.” James grinned as he stepped into the back of the van. There were cushions and beanbags piled up inside the long metal box. There were no windows in the back or sides, so they wouldn’t know where they were going, but the vehicles had started life as a security van and the escape hatch in the roof had been ripped out to let in fresh air and light.

The only other person in the back of the van had made himself comfortable, stripped down to his shorts and sprawling over two beanbags. He looked about twenty years old.

“I’m Jay,” he said, touching fists with the four new arrivals as Jo slammed the back doors and plunged them into gloom.

Once they’d all settled in, Jay put on The Beatles’ white album and offered everyone a choice of Coke or mineral water from a cooler box.

“You better appreciate the music.” Jay grinned. “I waged war to bring this boom box' I told the girls there was no way I was sitting in a van for four hours staring at metal.”

“You couldn’t read for that long,” Kyle said. “Especially in this light.”

The long wheelbase gave all five lads space to stretch out, and James got comfortable on a big cushion, with a smaller one propped behind his head. He was nervous about the next forty-eight hours, but Tom, Viv, Jay, and Kyle all started chatting and he found it hard not to pick up the buzz of five young men going on an adventure.

The only trouble was, it was high summer and they were trapped inside a poorly ventilated metal-sided box. By the time they reached the motorway, everyone had copied Jay and stripped down to their shorts.

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