The Fall (Robert Muchamore novel)
| Author | Robert Muchamore |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 15 March 2007 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 324 pp |
| ISBN | 0-340-91170-0 Search this book on  . (first edition, paperback) |
| OCLC | 76361189 |
The Fall is the seventh novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. It was published on 15 March 2007 by Hodder and Stoughton.[1]
Plot[edit]
James Adams is undercover in the fictional city of Aero City in Russia, posing as the nephew of MI5 agents Boris and Isla Kotenkov, who are working to expose the illegal weapons deals of local oligarch Denis Obidin. The agents go to a meeting with Obidin, leaving James alone in their apartment. Later that night, the apartment is raided by the police, and James barely escapes. After several nights in hiding, James is picked up by a CIA agent also investigating Obidin, who shows James surveillance footage of the agents killing Obidin and then being killed trying to escape his compound. James makes contact with CHERUB and is successfully exfiltrated back to the UK. However, to his dismay, he is suspended from missions by Zara and Ewart Asker pending an investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, Lauren Adams is on a training exercise under the supervision of Norman Large. After Large becomes inebriated and suffers a heart attack, Lauren takes charge to get medical attention for Large. Lauren is recruited for a mission to befriend Anna Chaika, a young girl who is suspected of having been smuggled into the UK by sex traffickers. Anna is tracked down by the trafficking ring, who kidnap her and Lauren and take them to a brothel. Lauren stabs one of the traffickers when he attempts to rape her, and the authorities raid the brothel after tracing Lauren's phone, freeing Anna and other human trafficking victims. Anna is granted British citizenship and adopted by a Scottish family.
Back on campus, James begins to fear that his CHERUB career will be ruined if his claims that the agents went rogue are not vindicated, especially after rumours begin to swirl amongst Kerry Chang and the other cherubs that James had blown the agents' cover. After unsuccessfully attempting to convince Kerry to help him sneak into the mission preparation centre and review Ewart's files from the mission, James breaks in alone. Reviewing the files, James discovers that Ewart was in possession of surveillance footage implicating the agents, contrary to Ewart's claims that he could not access the footage. James is caught by Dana Smith, who agrees to help James smuggle Ewart's files out of the control centre. Reviewing the files, James and Dana unravel the conspiracy: when Obidin's business partner Lord Frederick Hilton tried to end his dealings with Obidin, Obidin threatened to reveal the corruption of Hilton's son Sebastian Hilton, the junior intelligence minister. The Hiltons subsequently arranged the assassination of Obidin, as well as those of Lord Hilton's research scientist Clare Nazareth and personal assistant Madeline Cowell to prevent them revealing the truth. They realise that Ewart has left campus to meet with two other people with connections to the Hiltons: journalist Jason McLoud, who reported on Lord Hilton's business endeavours, and Cowell's housekeeper Sarah Thomas. James and Dana decide to follow Ewart to the meetings. They confess their mutual attraction and are caught in a compromising position by Lauren, who is returning from her mission.
While tailing Ewart, James and Dana witness private investigators placing a tracking device on Ewart's car. After Ewart leaves the meeting with Thomas, the private investigators attempt to kidnap Ewart and steal a file given to him by Thomas, only to be subdued by James and Dana. In the aftermath, it is revealed that Ewart had concealed his knowledge of the circumstances of Obidin's death to protect James from potential interrogation by MI5 and to prevent the Hiltons from discovering the extent of CHERUB's investigation. The file given to Ewart was evidence compiled by Cowell of the Hilton's corruption. CHERUB passes this evdience to McLoud; the Hiltons are subsequently arrested after McLoud reveals the scandal. Zara awards James and Dana their black shirt as gratitude for saving Ewart. James and Dana decide to begin dating, but back at campus they find that Lauren had told Kerry about them, disbelieving James' claims to have not been having an affair with Dana. When James and Dana try to explain the situation to Kerry, she begins throwing food at them, with the situation quickly deteriorating into a full-blown food fight in the campus cafeteria. James watches the scene unfold with bemusement, realising that the situation will grant him legendary status on campus.
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- ↑ "The Fall (CHERUB #7) ~ Paperback / softback ~ Robert Muchamore". Mighty Ape NZ. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
