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The Escape

Robert Muchamore
Chapters (38)
  1. BY ROBERT MUCHAMORE
  2. Part One
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. Part Two
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. EPILOGUE
  38. CHAPTER ONE
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BY ROBERT MUCHAMORE

The Henderson’s Boys series:

1. The Escape

2. Eagle Day

3. Secret Army

4. Grey Wolves

5. The Prisoner

Coming soon

The CHERUB series:

1. The Recruit

2. Class A

3. Maximum Security

4. The Killing

5. Divine Madness

6. Man vs Beast

7. The Fall

8. Mad Dogs

9. The Sleepwalker

10. The General

11. Brigands M. C.

12. Shadow Wave

CHERUB series 2:

1. People’s Republic

2. Guardian Angel

Coming soon

Copyright © 2009 Robert Muchamore

Map copyright © 2009 David McDougall

First published in Great Britain in 2009

by Hodder Children’s Books

This eBook edition published in 2011

The right of Robert Muchamore to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. Apart from any use permitted under UK copyright law, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form, or by any means with prior permission in writing from the publishers or in the case of reprographic production in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency and may not be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A Catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978 1 444 91041 4

Hodder Children’s Books

A division of Hachette Children’s Books

338 Euston Road,

London NW1 3BH

An Hachette UK company

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Part One

5 June 1940 – 6 June 1940

Nazi Germany launched its invasion of France on 10 May 1940. On paper, the forces of France and her British allies were equal or superior to the Germans’. Most commentators predicted a long and bloody war. But whilst the allied armies spread out in defensive formations the Germans used the radical new tactic of blitzkrieg – massing tanks and armour into huge battle groups and punching through enemy lines.

By 21 May the Germans had successfully occupied a huge section of northern France. The British were forced into a humiliating sea evacuation at Dunkirk and the French army was in tatters. German generals wanted to push on towards Paris, but Hitler ordered them to pause, regroup and secure their supply lines.

On the night of June 3rd, he finally gave orders to resume the attack.

CHAPTER ONE

As a baby, Marc Kilgour had been abandoned between two stone flower pots on the platform at Beauvais station, sixty kilometres north of Paris. A porter found him lying inside a wooden fruit box and rushed him into the warmth of the stationmaster’s office. There he discovered the only clue to the boy’s identity – a scrap of notepaper with four handwritten words: Allergic to cows’ milk.