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James Adams has to start at the bottom, making deliveries for small-time drug dealers and getting to know the dangerous underworld they inhabit. He needs to make a big splash if he’s going to win the confidence
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of the man at the top.

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Over the years, CHERUB has put plent y of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they’ve got to break one out . . .

Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be tried and sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eight y of these child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison known as Arizona Max. In one of the most daring CHERUB missions ever, James Adams has to go undercover inside Arizona Max, befriend an inmate and then bust him out. When a small-time crook suddenly has big money on his hands, it’s only natural that the police want to know where it came from.

James’ latest CHERUB mission looks routine: make friends with the bad guy’s children, infiltrate his home and dig up some leads for the cops to investigate. But the plot James begins to unravel isn’t what anyone expected. And it seems like the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-yearold boy. There’s just one problem. The boy fell from a rooftop
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and died more than a year earlier.

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When a team of CHERUB agents uncover a link bet ween eco-terrorist group Help Eart h and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James Adams is sent to Australia on an infiltration mission. It’s his toughest job so far. The Survivors’ outback headquarters are completely isolated. It’s a thousand kilometres to the nearest town and the cult’s brainwashing techniques mean James is under massive pressure to conform.

This time he’s not just fighting terrorists. He’s got to battle to keep control of his own mind. Every day thousands of animals die in laboratory experiments. Some say these experiments provide essential scientific knowledge, while others will do anything to prevent them.

CHERUB agents James and Lauren Adams are

stuck in the middle.

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When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.

Meanwhile, Lauren is on her first solo mission, tr ying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation.

And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning . . .

The British underworld is controlled by gangs. When two of them start a turf war, violence explodes on to the streets.

The police need information fast and James Adams is the only person who can get it. Returning to the scene of an earlier mission, he has to team up with old friends and face an ex-girlfriend he thought he’d never see again . . .

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An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345

people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism, but they’re getting nowhere.

A distressed twelve-year-old calls a police hotline and blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough, but there’s no hard evidence and the boy has a history of violence and emotional problems. Lauren Adams and Jake Parker are sent to

investigate, but they hate each other’s guts. Meanwhile, James is getting into trouble back on campus . . .

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The world’s largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Fort y British commandos are being hunted by an entire American battallion.

But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever.

Look out for
CHERUB: The General
, coming soon from Robert Muchamore and Hodder Children’s

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