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| Author | Robert Muchamore |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Genre | Children's, Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Publication date | April 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0340884355 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | CHERUB: Class A |
| Followed by | CHERUB: The Killing |
CHERUB: Maximum Security is the third book in the CHERUB series of books, written by Robert Muchamore. It deals with the further story of James Adams and Dave Moss infiltration a maximum security prison in Arizona to get to the son of an international arms dealer.
Blurb
Over the years, CHERUB have put plenty of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they've got to break one out.
Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of these child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison of Arizona Max.
In one of the most daring CHERUB missions ever, James Adams has to go undercover inside Arizona Max, befriend an inmate and the bust him out.
Plot summary
CONTAINS SPOILERS
At the start of the book, James Adams is struggling to come to terms with shooting someone in the previous book. However, when he is bowling along with some other CHERUB's, he gets into a fight at the bowling rink and as punishment they are sentence to a recruitment mission each.
However, James is saved the recruitment mission when he is offered a position in a upcoming mission. James is joined on the mission by Dave Moss and his sister Lauren Adams, on her first mission. The mission is about Jane Oxford, international arms dealer, has been untracable for as long as she's been on the CIA's most wanted list. But then they come across a breakthrough: Jane's 14 year old son Curtis Oxford has been jailed for murder.
He's being held at Arizona Maximum Security Prison. They ask a favour from CHERUB, an organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals don't expect kids are spying on them. However, after a prison fight Dave is injured and taken to hospital leaving only James to break out Curtis. James becomes friends with Curtis and they break out of the prison after injuring some guards. Met by Lauren, they travel thousands of kilometres until they reach Los Angeles.
However, Jane Oxford betrays them and orders some of her men to murder James and Lauren. With James having sneak out early, one of the murders starts smothering Lauren. In response, she stabs him in the throat with a Biro pen and knocks him unconscious. James with John Johns and a FBI team follow the other killer and Curtis, who is taking to Jane. They see Jane and arrest her and James and Lauren return to England.
Ironically, the murderer from the team assigned to dispose of James and Lauren, wounded during a shootout, survived his wounds only to be sentenced to death by an American court at a later date.
Awards
- Cheshire Children's Book Award 2007 - Winner.
- Portsmouth Children's Book Award 2006 - Winner.
- Grampian Children's Book Award 2006 - Runner Up.
- Doncaster Children's Book Award 2006 - Runner Up
External links
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