The General (CHERUB, #10)

by Robert Muchamore

The tenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James and Lauren are off to America to help train the army - and get into trouble in Las Vegas ...

The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American battalion.

But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever.

CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that kids are spying on them.

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

• ISBN10: 1481456660
• ISBN13: 9781481456661
• Publish Date: 26 April 2016 (first published 4 September 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Simon Pulse
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

The first time I read this an easy five stars. Rereading I think I have to remove one star. It was good but not that good. I don't know. I'm older now and the relationships within this series - I just find them disturbing on a number of levels. The adults act like children. The children act like children. I just don't understand how this operation runs. There's so much violence. And I love violence, I really do. But this is disturbing violence. Every second word out of every person's mouth is about belting someone. None of the characters seem to like each other or hold any sort of respect for each other.

The action was good. But I'm having a bit of a read of a reading slump and I feel like I should remove a star. Or half a star. It's really four and a half. Maybe a bit more. I just couldn't quite get into it, although under normal circumstances I would've loved it. And have loved it. I've read this quite a few times. I'm going to leave it at five stars, but please note this read through wasn't quite five.