- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books (1 Nov 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333273850
- ISBN-13: 978-0333273852
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,420,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Is there really a spy in Garmouth? Too many Allied ships have been sunk by German U-boats, and why else would there be a radio transmitter floating down the river? Jack's search for the spy begins almost as a game. The author also wrote "Rachel and the Angel", "The Wind Eye" and "Yaxley's Cat".
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About the Author
Robert Westall was born in 1929 on Tyneside, where he grew up during the Second World War. He studied Fine Art and Sculpture, and for many years taught in schools throughout the North of England. His first novel for children, THE MACHINE GUNNERS won the Carnegie Medal in 1975. He won it again in 1982 for THE SCARECROW (the first writer to win the medal twice), the Smarties Prize in 1989 for BLITZCAT, and the Guardian Award in 1991 for THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA. He died in 1993.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having read and enjoyed Machine Gunners it was great to catch up with Chas McGill and friends again. This story was as good as before, if not better. The action kept us reading well beyond the "one last page" I kept threatening (I was reading it to my son) and we found the whole family listening to it in the end!
Chas and his best mate, Cem come across some interesting rubbish on the beach and end up suspecting a spy to be at work in Garmouth. They get into all sorts of scrapes and involve many other people in their hunt for the spy and the truth. It will keep you guessing on many issues, is there a spy? Who might he or she be? Will Chas find the answers and save the ships at sea?
Robert Westall has managed to put together another wonderful story of life during World War Two, as a young boy would have seen it. He admits that it is, in parts, almost an autobiography. If only he were alive today we would be writing to thank him for a brilliant story - we will be working our way through his other books.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having tried to obtain this book through normal channels ie bookshops and libraries without any luck. It was suggested I try Amazon. Being new to the internet I was a little apprehensive, but my first time experience was very gratifying, the book being purchased without any difficulty. Receipt of the book was amazingly quick and the condition of the book superb.
Result one very happy grand-daughter.
I will definitely use Amazon again.
Result one very happy grand-daughter.
I will definitely use Amazon again.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Made you feel like you were really there
12 April 1999
Format:Paperback
I found that this book really there. Not to mention that the suspense never stopped. But it end is really sad. You wont be able to put it down
Another good Robert Westall story.
7 Feb 2010
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I enjoyed the Machine-Gunners and I enjoyed this sequel - Fathom Five. I realize these are supposed to be children's books but that is not to say readers interested in WW11 would not find them good reading. I own several of Robert Westall's books. The only one I didn't, "get" was The Scarecrows. My #1 favourite (English spelling) of his is still Blitz Cat. I LOVE that book.
the best book I have ever read about WWII
23 April 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a great book with bone chilling suspence durring a time of love and war.The book is about a english boy named Chas Mcgill who has stumbled upon a strange obgect after a u-boat was sunk.he his frend Cem Jones and his girl freind Shiela work together to try to solve the mystery of what the object is and whos it is... without endangering there own.Irecomend this book to every one especialy world warII fanatics like myself.
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