Product Description

A terrorist doesn’t let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place.

The terrorist doesn’t know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on her PC, and copied all the numbers in her phone book. The kid works for CHERUB.

CHERUB is not James Bond. There are no master criminals or high-tech gadgets. CHERUB kids live in the real world. They slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

For official purposes, these children do not exist. (20041001)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1921 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

The Sunday Express
'Punchy, exciting, glamorous and, what's more, you'll completely wish it was true.'

Review
'An excellent start to a promising series. It is every boy's wish to be a spy, and this book will enthrall every single one of them.' (The Bookseller )

'Punchy, exciting, glamorous and, what's more, you'll completely wish it was true.' (The Sunday Express )

'An exciting, swiftly moving tale' (School Librarian )

'I loved this book.' (Caroline Lawrence, author of The Roman Mysteries )

'A fast-paced action thriller, which should turn into a fantastic series - if James manages to live that long.' (Young Post )

'It's action all the way as we follow the new recruit's rapid development and no doubt Muchamore's nephews will, like me, be cheering him every step of the way.' (Ireland on Sunday )

School Librarian
'An exciting, swiftly moving tale'

Customer Reviews

the recruit by robert muchamore
I have just finished this book and have now ran out of thinks to read! torture! i am therefore reading this again. its a great book for anyone. While i am a very advanced reader even someone who is only just started reading will find this book brilliant. the plot is clever and does not give the entire story away instantly. i read it in under a day and even though i read most books this quickly and still enjoy them i perticulary enjoyed this one. absolutely brilliant. really want to read bk 2 :class a

No cheery happy endings here.
A lot like the Alex Rider series but without so many lucky escapes and ooh-how-handy-I've-just-found-a-gadget-that-can-melt-an-eight-inch-door-of-steel-I-wondered-I'd-get-out. Im not going to sum up the plot, don't be lazy, read it for your self. Its a brilliantly realistic book(the fact that they're children working for the goverment to undermine crimminals plans by acting as inocent children-not so much. Buy it, read it, share it.

The recruit!!!
I think the recruit is absolutly exellent! I could not put the book down, now that I have finished it I am definitley going to look out for the sequels! It is about a boy who has a terrible homelife but when his mother dies he becomes a spy for the cherub organisation.
It is an exciting book I strongly advise you to read it!!!