Man vs Beast

Man vs Beast is the sixth novel of the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore.

For the US television show, see Man vs. Beast.
Man vs Beast
AuthorRobert Muchamore
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCHERUB
GenreThriller, Spy novel
PublisherHodder and Stoughton
Publication date
19 October 2006
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages320 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN0-340-91169-7 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC70173265
823.92 22
LC ClassPZ7.M869647 Ma 2006
Preceded byDivine Madness 
Followed byThe Fall 

Plot

The book starts with a 14-year-old boy called Andy Pierce witnessing his mother, Christine, getting assaulted by two masked men who are working for the Animal Freedom Militia.

The book then skips to Kerry being annoyed by her boyfriend, James. James goes into his room and he is met by his sister Lauren. She asks him to help her and her best friend Bethany to sneak into the basic training compound to give Bethany's brother, Jake, and Lauren's crush, Rat, some food. James refuses but Lauren blackmails him by threatening to tell Kerry about him cheating on her during a mission a year before.

James joins the girls on the mission to get the food to the trainees. All goes fine but Mac watches them on the back up CCTV and they get caught. James is not punished for being blackmailed and he, Lauren and Kyle are sent on a mission to bring down the AFM (Animal Freedom Militia).

Lauren is stuck with the ex-con while he meets up with his old animal rights protest group. They get invited to rescue dozens of dogs from the compound which were supposed to be sold onto the testing company. All goes well in the rescue, but the rescuers were overwhelmed because many more dogs were rescued than they thought. Lauren saves a puppy from getting run over by Zara's car. They end up keeping the dog in the chairwoman's house. Lauren names the dog Meatball (due to Lauren being a vegetarian).

James and Kyle successfully infiltrate the AFA (Animal Freedom Army), another movement within the AFM. In the AFA's televised show, where they lock a TV chef in a cage, feeding him cleansing chemicals through a tube, the CHERUB agents safely drive the TV chef, who was very close to death, to a hospital, and the AFA, and even members of the AFM, are arrested. In their urgency to leave, Lauren takes Meatball with her, although pets were not allowed on CHERUB campus. They solve this issue by letting Meatball stay at Zara Asker's house. On the mission Lauren becomes a vegetarian and at the end when CHERUB agents fly to the summer hostel for a holiday, James puts meat in her bag on the plane to annoy her. Zara Asker becomes chairwoman succeeding Dr. McAfferty who retires.[1]

Reception

The book has been thoroughly recommended by The Sunday Telegraph.

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References
  1. —— (2006). Man vs Beast. CHERUB. 6. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-91169-3.
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