Dark Sun (Mini Book)

From Chiki

Dark Sun is the nine point fifth book in the CHERUB series. Although it's technically the tenth book in the series, The General is classed as the tenth book.

Dark Sun was released for £1 on World Book Day, and despite embargoes until March 3 2008, many people had it early.

The blurb is written below.

It's the last day of term. Three lads are clearing out their lockers, organising a sleepover and hatching a plan to splatter a girl with rancid coleslaw.

But things aren't what they seem.

One boy's father is a member of Dark Sun, a criminal organisation dealing in nuclear weapons technology, while another is a CHERUB agent sent to stop him.

Plot

Rat is going undercover in Milton Keynes to befriend George Lydon, son of nuclear engineer and suspected member of the criminal organisation "Dark Sun" Kurt Lydon. The mission is going well, and Rat has managed to get himself and Andy Lagan, who is posing as Rat's cousin, invited to George's summer sleepover. On the last day of term, George's other friend Zhang finds a rancid tub of coleslaw in his locker and convinces George to throw out a window onto George's sister Sophie. Unfortunately, the coleslaw hits a rugby player called Thomas Moran, and Thomas runs after the trio. Rat manages to knock out Thomas, strengthing he friendship between him and George.

Back at campus, Lauren, Andy, Jake and several of Jake's mates have been punished for mucking around during a lecture by doing the assault course. Andy is knocked off the height challenge and falls into the pond, seriously pulling a muscle in his left upper body, but toughs out the pain to continue the mission.

Andy and Rat arrive at George's house and settle down for an Xbox tournament. Sophie goes out clubbing and Dr. Lydon goes to bed early after a long day at the hospital. With Kurt away at a meeting in Belgium, all Rat and Andy have to do is knock out George and Zhang with some spiked beer, spray knock-out gas into Dr. Lydon's room so she doesn't wake up and change Lydon's designs for a uranium centifruge. However, Sophie comes home early and, as her door is locked, goes to Dr. Lydon's room to ask her mum to unlock her door. Rat distracts Sophie while Andy opens Sophie's room, but Sophie is freaked out and smashes a vase over Rat's head. Andy manages to inject Sophie with a sedative, and the two cherubs finish their work.

With the mission's objectie completed, Rat and Andy return to campus. A new, state-of-the-art library is opened on campus on World Book Day, and James shows Lauren, Rat and Andy the headlines: Kurt Lydon and twenty-one other members of Dark Sun have been arrested after the faulty centifruge explodes in a Nigerian uranium enrichment facility.

Quotes

"Heeeeere's Johno! Guess where I'm gonna stick your head!"

- Johno

"Mweely lwttle worm."

- Andy

"Bull's-eye!"

- Bruce

"Screw you. You can't expect anyone to play brilliantly the first time you pick it up. I took you to a tiebreak that last set - AAARGH, I hate that stupid corner so much!"

- Zhang

"We're all getting hammered! We're all getting hammered!"

- Zhang

"Oh, you naughty little rabbit!"

- George Lydon

"Why can't you just die of cancer?"

- George Lydon

"Go back indoors, you nosy old bat."

- Zhang

"Ahh shit!"

- Andy

"Anyone for Coco Pops?"

- Zhang

"I've never really seen the point of books. I mean, if they're any good you just have to wait a couple of years and it gets turned into a movie."

"Just because the last book you read was about a hippo learning to tell the time."

"And he never finished that. James still gets the big hand and the little hand mixed up."

- James, Lauren and Rat

"Timber!"

- James

Trivia

Rob decided to give a personally signed copy of Dark Sun to every CHERUB Forums moderator, no matter where they lived around the world.