Fathom Five
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Our cover illustration is from Moonlight by Jan Ormerod. (Kestrel, 0 7226 5749 8, £3.95). We are grateful to Kestrel for their help in reproducing this illustration in full colour.
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Not all the stick this took in hardback was deserved but it is flawed by excessive length and a slow start. (Stereotypes among the characters are annoying, but to adults rather than teenagers.) Get a copy, though, to use après Machine Gunners since it's set in Garmouth, 1943, with supporting roles for Cem and Audrey. Sixth-former Jack Stoke discovers that someone is passing shipping secrets to a lurking U-boat but, in unmasking the spy, he also learns things about women, class and war. If kids cope with the first third, they'll enjoy it because, thereafter, it's quite tense and exciting.
