Cherub

The Recruit book cover

CHERUB is a series of children's books by Robert Muchamore about a group of kids who attend the CHERUB campus to be trained as secret agents. The organisation is a children's branch of the British security service, based on the fact that no criminal would suspect a child of spying on them.

Contents

1 Series
2 Characters
3 Staff at CHERUB
4 Villains
5 External links

Series

CHERUB: [The Recruit] (ISBN 068987779X)

Main character James Adams goes through turmoil as while he is in a foster home he is spotted and recruited by the spy organisation, CHERUB. He learns about CHERUB and goes through a harsh program of basic training and his first mission. The Recruit was [2005 winner of the Red House Book Award].

CHERUB: [Class A] (ISBN 0340881542)

James is sent on a mission to stop a drug dealer and to succeed he becomes friends with drug dealers and deals in drugs himself. He comes close to trying them.

CHERUB: [Maximum Security] (ISBN 0340884355)

James becomes an inmate of a high security prison, but finds that his mission becomes a little more complicated than he thought it would be when his accomplice Dave is injured in a fight and can't carry on with the mission.

CHERUB: [The Killing] (ISBN 0340894334)

Somehow, a small time crook managed to get his hands on a fortune. MI5 needs to know how.

CHERUB: [Divine Madness] (ISBN 0340894342)

When CHERUB discovers a link between terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult called the Survivors, the authorities are desperate to know why.

''CHERUB: [Man Vs. Beast]'

Every day thousands of animals die in laboratory experiments. Some say these experiments provide essential scientific knowledge, while others commit violent acts in order to stop them. James and Lauren Adams are stuck in the middle.... ' (Scheduled to be published October 2006, U.K release October 19th)

CHERUB: 7 The Fall (To be published May 2007)
CHERUB: 8 (To be published January 2008)Possible names include: Mad Dogs, Green pepper and the current favourite, Left for Dead

Characters

James Robert Anthony Adams, formerly James Choke: The main character in the books, which mainly focus on his experiences. He does have anger management problems which do get him into trouble regularly. He excels at mathematics and is good in other subjects, although at the start he is not motivated to do the set work. At the beginning of The Recruit he is expelled from school. His mother dies and he is put in a foster home, where he is recruited to CHERUB by Kyle Blueman.

Kerry Chang: James meets her shortly after joining CHERUB, shares a basic training programme with her and she becomes a very good friend, even sharing an on/off romance with him.

Lauren Adams: formerly Lauren Zoe Onions: James' half sister, who is forced to live with her father, Ronald Onions, a violent cigarette smuggler, for the start of the first book. She is recruited to CHERUB later.

Kyle Blueman: A key character in The Recruit as he helps to get James settled in at the care home, but he does have a few tricks up his sleeve so to speak. He's always out to make some money, but the only scheme that actually works is his pirate DVD business. And even that gets him in trouble when the little brother of Lauren Adams' best friend decides to switch the labels on a DVD so some kids end up with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre instead of the Harry Potter film they wanted to watch. In Class A, he admits to James that he is a homosexual, and, according to the official CHERUB web site, Kyle will get his first boyfriend in Man vs. Beast.

Dave Moss: Dave is James's partner in Maximum Security and in The Killing. He is known as one of the coolest guys on the CHERUB campus, but is quite lazy. Rumour has it that he impregnated another member of CHERUB. He retired from Cherub after The Killing.

Staff at CHERUB

Dr Terrence MacAfferty (colloquially known as Mac) has been the CHERUB chairman for 7-8 years in the 5th book. He is regarded to be very strange man. In Class A he has a reflective picture frame so he can see what's happening in the outside window; Lauren has written JAMES SUCKS in big letters.

His punishments are half severe or half good, depending on optimism or pessimism (see Is the glass half empty or half full?. Before James does basic training he bunks off the campus and got no punishment but Kyle and Bruce got intp serious trouble.

Zara Asker is the senior mission controler. She worked with James on Class A and was going to in the Killing but had trouble with her baby so former M15 agent John Jones took over. Like most staff she is a former cherub.

Ewart Asker is Zara's husband and the harshest of controllers.

John Jones; John Jones worked for the police and then MI5. In Class A he works with the cherubs and then he's amazed so he decides to leave M15 and joins CHERUB as a mission controller. He worked with James as an MI5 agent in Class A and in Maximum Security. In The Killing and Divine Madness he is the mission controller.

Villains

Brian Evans; Books: CHERUB: The Recruit, CHERUB: Divine Madness. He seems like quite a nice person, but as James finds out in his first mission, all that glitters is not gold.

Keith Moore; Book: CHERUB Class A. In his second mission, James infiltrates a big drug-dealing gang. To find out the most, he's got to get to the man at the top.

Curtis Oxford; Book: CHERUB: Maximum Security. "If I'd seen you on the street, I'd just think you were a normal kid", but Curtis Oxford, is far from normal.

Jane Oxford; Book: CHERUB: Maximum Security. Mother of Curtis Oxford, but this is no ordinary dinner-cooking houswife.

Leon Tarasov; Book: CHERUB: The Killing. Suddenly, Leon's got a lot of money on his hands. It's just too good to last.

Joel Regan; Book: CHERUB: Divine Madness. When MI5 discover that a high ranking Help Earth! member has links to Joel Regan's survivors James and Lauren are sent to infiltrate it.

Eleanor Regan; Book: CHERUB: Divine Madness. Eleanor Regan, commonly known as "The Spider", is considered to be the person with real power inside the Survivor's Ark (her father, Joel Regan, is now 82 and depends on an oxygen tube). She is the eldest of Joel's 33 children, the youngest being Rathbone (usually known as Rat), who befriends James and Lauren.

External links

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