Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.
The commander of forty British commandos, who are being hunted by an American battalion in the desert near a military base in the Nevada, recruits ten CHERUB agents--children between age ten and seventeen who work for a branch of British intelligence--to act as spies.
