Quotes from Robert Muchamore

and a bank of six screens on which you could plot world domination, or watch Sky Sports.

As he choked back more tears, James realised that every time he lashed out it was him that got hurt most.

James found his sister's head on his shoulder, then her hand sliding under the armrest and resting on his bare knee. James put his own hand on top, with his fingers spread between Lauren's and they stayed that way for ages.

First thing I notice is that said arse is a peach.

barns on fifteen acres close to the wealthy enclave of Salcombe. On a clear day the video cameras mounted around its corrugated metal fence could peer over the barbed wire at millionaires' yachts moored in the marina below. Dante Scott was eight years old, son of Scotty,

The missile has a solid-fuel rocket engine with a ten-kilometre range and more brainpower than a roomful of nerds.

I wouldn't be surprised if she flips out, says it's the end of the world and starts handing out guns and ammo.

James realised he'd made friends with a couple of seriously twisted kids.

You've got a missed call,' Ryan said,

I'm desperate to get inside Lucy's pants

James had learned something about girls: if you want them to like you, don't worry about buying gifts, or saying the right thing, or where to take them. What you need to do is grab the nearest brat and stick it on your lap.

Lauren nodded. 'I copied all the data, but I don't think you're going to find anything useful, unless you get a sudden urge to play Jimmy Bear Learns His ABCs.

If I fall to my death, tell James and Bruce that they overdid it when they taught me how to get over my fear of heights.

they were debating who was sexier out of Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez.

The author of this book would like to point out that the shoplifting technique described here only works with certain outdated security systems. I've got no intention of telling you which ones they are because I don't want angry Dads turning up on my doorstep and kicking my head in because their little darling just got busted trying to nick something from a shop.

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

It was like an alien spaceship had sucked a housing estate out the middle of London, then decided it didn't like the look of it and dumped it in the middle of nowhere.

One through the heart, one through the head. Then you know he's really dead.

If you want a gram of cocaine, stand on any street corner. If you want a ton of cocaine, stand on any street corner in Miami.

However, if you have the disease, your chances of survival decrease with every minute treatment is delayed, so we're going to assume the worst and begin treatment now.

laboratory in London rechecked your blood sample and the anthrax inside you couldn't kill a flea.

Easy," James said. "It's like a computer game. If you look, the shelves in some bays are closer together. You can use them like a ladder.

rectangular slab of mincemeat that everyone, including the servers, referred to as baked turd.

Usually when adults ask a kid to help, the kid ends up standing around holding a spanner like a gherkin for three hours, but Vaughn kept James busy and actually trusted him to do stuff.