The Recruit (Robert Muchamore) is a thrilling action story of children being used as undercover government-based agents. The organization, CHERUB was created by Charles Henderson, who chose to make it when he saw the French in a war use children as messengers and scouts. At first he trained only 20 British boys, but when he died in 1946, CHERUB had thrived to an amazing 200 boys, all younger than 17 and with no parents.
James Choke, an average London boy goes to school, and lived a normal life, until his mother died of drug overdose, meaning he and his sister had to live in foster care, as they had no real father. This is when his life went down the drain. How he reacted was outrageous as he was into gangs, booze and stealing.
James is the reason why I like this book. He is a rebel and smart, but he doesn’t know what his limits are. This proved when he decided by extreme peer pressure to steal, the day after a police warning. If CHERUB hadn’t recruited him, his life would be messed up as he would have started on drugs, murders and alcohol. He is the reason why I keep flicking the pages in the story.
The Recruit is filled with many interesting characters like James, who takes his sister, Lauren and girlfriend, Kerry for granted. This proved lethal at times as Kerry hurts him and when he gains an appalling reputation of treating girls like dirt, but he always manages to get them back, because of his so called ‘good looks’.
Kerry tries to make James’ life easier when he goes through a 100 day real life test, as she had done half before, but only makes things worse as the instructors watched them more closely to see if any shortcuts were taken, which was done, resulting in serious punishments involving only teamwork to solve them. They did.
In a world like ours it may seem not just right to use innocent children who have no parents to guide them as undercover agents, but the only way to see how CHERUB’s lifestyle really works is if you read the book!
Michael Addamo
James Choke, an average London boy goes to school, and lived a normal life, until his mother died of drug overdose, meaning he and his sister had to live in foster care, as they had no real father. This is when his life went down the drain. How he reacted was outrageous as he was into gangs, booze and stealing.
James is the reason why I like this book. He is a rebel and smart, but he doesn’t know what his limits are. This proved when he decided by extreme peer pressure to steal, the day after a police warning. If CHERUB hadn’t recruited him, his life would be messed up as he would have started on drugs, murders and alcohol. He is the reason why I keep flicking the pages in the story.
The Recruit is filled with many interesting characters like James, who takes his sister, Lauren and girlfriend, Kerry for granted. This proved lethal at times as Kerry hurts him and when he gains an appalling reputation of treating girls like dirt, but he always manages to get them back, because of his so called ‘good looks’.
Kerry tries to make James’ life easier when he goes through a 100 day real life test, as she had done half before, but only makes things worse as the instructors watched them more closely to see if any shortcuts were taken, which was done, resulting in serious punishments involving only teamwork to solve them. They did.
In a world like ours it may seem not just right to use innocent children who have no parents to guide them as undercover agents, but the only way to see how CHERUB’s lifestyle really works is if you read the book!
Michael Addamo
1 comment:
Mike, you put a lot of effort in writing this but i think you could have spent a bit more time polishing the review up.
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