In the Ark, James befriends Rathbone 'Rat' Regan, the cynical son of Survivors founder Joel Regan who sees through the cult's brainwashing techniques. However, Barry kills the ASIS agents following them and reveals that the facility to be attacked is not in Australia as originally assumed, but instead in Indonesia. Dana manages to alert mission controller John Jones of the target. Meanwhile, Dana and another young Survivor, Eve Stannis, are recruited to aid Barry and his fellow Help Earth operative Nina Richards in a terrorist attack on a LNG terminal. James and Lauren are sent to the Survivor's elite boarding school in the Ark, the Survivors' isolated Outback headquarters. The cherubs go undercover in Australia and are soon recruited by the cult. Before James leaves, he and Kerry agree to give their relationship another try when he returns. James and Lauren Adams and Dana Smith are sent on a mission to infiltrate The Survivors, with the aim of infiltrating the higher echelons of the cult and discovering the extent of their connection with Help Earth. An MI5 investigation into Cox's activities uncovers that Help Earth are being funded by wealthy Australian cult The Survivors, who are in turn profiting from terrorist attacks committed by Help Earth. After Clyde meets with Help Earth operative Barry Cox, Bruce follows Barry back to his hotel room and incapacitates him before stealing his documents, while Kerry thwarts the assassination attempt by swapping out the explosives Cox had given Clyde. Kerry Chang, Bruce Norris and Kyle Blueman are on a mission in Hong Kong to befriend Clyde Xu, a teenage environmentalist who has been recruited by Help Earth to assassinate an oil executive. In this novel, CHERUB agents James, Lauren, and Dana go to Australia to investigate a religious cult called the Survivors. The first book will be called People's Republic.Divine Madness is the fifth novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category.įollowing the last book in the CHERUB series, it was revealed that a trilogy would be released starting from August 2011 that will focus on a new set of CHERUB agents centred upon Ryan Sharma and also involve an sixteen year old Lauren Adams.

Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephews' complaints about the lack of anything for them to read. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors like Robert. The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Joe Craig and Charlie Higson. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security. Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972.

Divine Madness by Robert Muchamore