The Destructors by Graham Greene. Short summary

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One of the main characters is a boy named Trevor. The latter is the leader of a criminal group of boys, which has the name of the Warmsley Common Gang.

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One of the main characters is a boy named Trevor. He is the head of a children’s criminal group called the Wormsley Common Gang. Trevor proposes to his comrades to destroy a beautiful house, whose history goes back 200 years. The structure was able to survive the Third Reich air raids on London in the early 1940s. The gang supports their own leader’s proposal.

When the owner of the house, Mr. Thomas, leaves it and goes on vacation for the weekend, the young gangsters take decisive action. They want to smash to pieces the inside of the house at once and then the outside. However, things do not go according to Trevor’s plan, because Mr. Thomas returns earlier than the boys thought. They were able to lock him in the bathroom and then proceed to vandalize the place.

Members of the children’s criminal group manage to find a mattress full of money, which they then burn. After the final destruction of the structure, one of the gang members lets Mr. Thomas out so he can look at the remains of his house.