CHERUB: Class A
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources, or discuss the issue on the talk page. This article has been tagged since October 2007. |
| CHERUB: Class A | |
 First edition cover |
|
| Author | Robert Muchamore |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Genre(s) | Children's, Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Publication date | 14 October 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 304 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0340881542 (first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | CHERUB: The Recruit |
| Followed by | CHERUB: Maximum Security |
CHERUB: Class A is the second book in the CHERUB series of books, written by Robert Muchamore. It deals with the further story of James Adams and his fellow cherubs. The book has been republished in other countires as The Mission and The Dealer. An audiobook is expected to come out in October 2008 read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.[citation needed]
[edit] Plot summary
The book begins at the CHERUB summer hostel, where James, Bruce Norris, Kerry Chang, Gabrielle O'Brien, Amy and other cherubs are enjoying their summer term. James allows himself to get badly out of shape, due to which he fails badly on a training exercise along with Bruce, against Kerry and Gabrielle. James gets put on an emergency fitness plan by Mr. Large, and gets assigned to 10 km running every morning.
When James returns to the summer hostel, Gabrielle and Kerry wind Bruce and him up, which results in a violent altercation between Kerry and Bruce. Kerry ends up with a bad knee injury and has to be flown back home by medical helicopter. Meryl sends James, Bruce and Gabrielle home two weeks early to CHERUB campus, and Doctor MacAfferty assigns James, Bruce, Gabrielle, Lauren and Bethany to an hour of gardening duty daily.
Just when James feels like one more week of this workload will send him under, he gets assigned to a mission with Kerry, Nicole and Kyle, with Ewart and Zara Asker as his mission controllers. His target is a drug dealer called Keith Moore, who runs KMG (Keith Moore's Gang), the biggest drug distribution gang in England. He gets friendly with Keith's son, Keith Jr.(Junior) and works his way up in KMG, gaining Keith's trust.
One day, he finds Junior and Nicole in the toilets of a boxing club taking cocaine. Nicole ODs causing her to pass out and Ewart has to take her to hospital. She is expelled from CHERUB as per the rule about taking Class A drugs. Kyle has also taken some cannabis and is made to clean a ditch on campus.
Keith invites James to visit his holiday home in Miami along with him and Junior. Before he goes to Miami James goes back to campus for additional training by Amy. While there he finds Lauren in his room crying. It is then revealed that she attacked Mr. Large by a spade, and will have to restart training, and have to clean out a boggy ditch on campus.
While in Miami, one night, some armed members of a Peruvian drug cartel break into Keith's house, and James ends up shooting one of the gunmen dead. He narrowly manages to escape, and drives a Range Rover through a fence to escape. Keith is subsequently captured and the evidence provided by Keith himself helps put him into prison for 18 years. James returns to campus and spends a lot of time with his new girlfriend, Kerry.
[edit] External links
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
