Henderson's Boys #06 - One Shot Kill by Robert Muchamore

Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kindle
ISBN: 9781444914078
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Published: 2012-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

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After a morning of shooting and an afternoon of brain-numbing maths, Goldberg had devised an evening potato hunt that would raise morale, while testing the four recruits’ stealth and camouflage skills.

A sack of potatoes had been distributed in the area around the old village school, Henderson’s cottage and the nearby church graveyard. The trainees worked alone and had to collect as many spuds as possible, while Goldberg had mustered more than a dozen staff and fellow trainees to hunt them.

If a trainee was caught, they had five potatoes taken out of their sack and had to run back to a starting position near the campus gates before resuming the hunt.

The first round of the game only lasted ten minutes, at which point Henderson’s wife Joan emerged from their cottage and began yelling. She was trying to get her two-year-old to sleep, but it was proving impossible because he kept running to the window every time he heard something exciting going on outside.

After that little glitch, all potatoes were moved away from the Hendersons’ cottage and the game resumed. When ninety minutes running around in twilight were up, Paul surprised everyone by winning. His cunning strategy had been to hide all the potatoes he’d collected until the end of the game, which meant he didn’t have to worry about losing five of them every time he got caught.

Goldberg had thrown himself into his role as a hunter, and his uniform was wet and streaked with grass stains as he walked up to the dormitory rooms on the first floor. All the kids who’d taken part were in high spirits, and a new battle had broken out with pillows, flying boots and balled-up socks as they got changed for bed.

‘I’ve enjoyed working with you four,’ Goldberg told his trainees, once they’d gathered around. ‘People your age learn fast, which makes my job easier. There’s going to be one final exercise tomorrow morning. Kindhe and I are driving out early to set up four shooting points in the woods.

‘You’ll each work alone, four shots per target and you’ll lose a point if you don’t reach each shooting zone within twenty minutes. I want you at the front door ready to shoot at 9 a.m., so I’d suggest you all get a good night’s sleep. The two trainees who score highest will parachute into France with Henderson.’

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