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 enlarge | Author: Robert Muchamore
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 544
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0340911719
EAN: 9780340911716
ASIN: 0340911719
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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 The best CHERUB book so far!!! November 8, 2007
Amazing,this book was the best book out of the CHERUB series so far. Although I would suggest that you are over eleven before you read this or any other book from the CHERUB series so far.
Thanks Robert Muchamore for another brilliant CHERUB book.
Good addition to a great series, but not the best October 30, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The two biggest rivals to the Alex Rider series are this Cherub series and the Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig. Cherub started off in amazing style with The Recruit and has continued to be pure class, but has never quite reached the heights of that first book.
While staying true to its grittier roots, it has lost some of the excitement because there's a limit to what real kids can practically do.
In contrast, Alex Rider became more and more ridiculous, while the Jimmy Coates series has improved with every book by striking a balance between a real life setting and more outrageous and daring action sequences.
Mad Dogs is definitely a great read, but it's good to have all these amazing books to read and to compare the different styles. If you haven't checked out any Cherub yet you should, along with Alex Rider and Jimmy Coates. (But start with the Recruit.)
Pretty good October 27, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read all the CHERUB books, and this one did not fail to disappoint me. The characters and situations are complex, but still understandable, and the vast majority appears to be highly realistic, if you stretch your imagination to a children's secret service.
My only ongoing problem with the CHERUB books is that absolutely everyone is middle class. Teenagers on drugs simply do not behave like middle class teenagers. Muchamore puts everything obvious in there, like bunking off school, but this somehow fails to remove the impression of middle class teenagers.
 Same agein. Excellent! October 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Up to his usual standards. Fast paced, realistic, and leaving you feel like you've lost someone when you've finished.
NOT FOR YOUNGER READERS. Some Naughty stuff in it 12+. I will be preordering his nxt one his series is that gd. BUY IT!
He does it again, but so mcuh better. October 13, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Muchamore's CHERUB series has always produced books that teens can relate with, and that can either be read and enjoyed,or read into and truly understood.
Mad Dogs is the best in a long line of fabulous literature and I have no doubt that this is not yet the best to come.
This edition features much of the gritty realism we have come to love and whereas some people would prefer to wonder about traction engine yoyos, with nanotube carbonfibre impregnated clothing and sub-compact handguns as deal of the day, it is clear that this authour has done his homework.
We look forward to more of your work Rob.
Yours,
Tommy5x
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