This is a list of characters from Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series of books.
Born James Robert Choke in 1991, in Tufnell Park, London. The main protagonist, James suffers from anger management difficulties, often landing him in trouble. It is these anger management issues that get him expelled from school in The Recruit, in which he is recruited into CHERUB following the death of his criminal mother. James has had many girlfriends in the books, notably Kerry Chang and Dana Smith, both fellow agents. He is said to be intelligent particularly at maths but being extremely lazy in school as well. He has sex three times, once with Lois, Dana and Reina (Brigands)He ends up dating Kerry again at the end of Brigands M.C., although he leaves a year before Kerry to go to university in America and it is unclear whether their long-distance relationship will survive. James Robert Choke had to change his name to James Robert Anthony Adams when he decided to join CHERUB at the beginning of The Recruit. He is the main character of all 12 CHERUB books. James' final mission is Shadow Wave. At the end of his CHERUB Life, he returns to his "Choke" surname and switches his two forenames around, to become Robert James Choke. James is not mentioned in the new series of "CHERUB".
| Lauren Adams | |
|---|---|
| CHERUB character | |
| First appearance | The Recruit |
| Created by | Robert Muchamore |
| Née | Lauren Zoe Onions |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | CHERUB agent |
| Title | Black shirt Cherub |
| Family | James Adams (brother), Gwen Choke (mother), Ronald Onions (father of Lauren) |
| Nationality | English |
Born Lauren Zoe Onions in 1994, in Tufnell Park, London. Lauren is James' half-sister and after the death of her mother, lives with her father Ronald Onions for a short time, until he is arrested for smuggling and assault; she is then recruited to CHERUB. She has accompanied her brother on missions in Maximum Security, Divine Madness, Man vs. Beast and Brigands MC. It is in Man Vs. Beast that she turns vegetarian, after seeing the cruelty suffered by animals used for laboratory tests. She has an on/off boyfriend on campus,Greg "Rat" Rathbone, although they became simply friends again somewhere between The Fall and Mad Dogs but later dated each other again.
| Kyle Blueman | |
|---|---|
| CHERUB character | |
| First appearance | The Recruit |
| Last appearance | Shadow Wave |
| Created by | Robert Muchamore |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | student, ex-CHERUB agent, works in gay-bar |
Born 1989, somewhere in the United Kingdom. A key character in the early stories, Kyle recruited James into CHERUB through sharing a room with him in the children's home James inhabits following the death of his mother. Kyle is renowned around campus for his pirate DVD business. It is revealed in Class A that Kyle is homosexual, and he gets his first boyfriend, Tom Carter, in Man Vs. Beast. Kyle retired from campus in Mad Dogs, after he got kicked out by Zara for breaking down her front door in an attempt to stop Mr Large from killing Zara's dog Meatball. He is James Adams' best and oldest friend.
Born Ling Chang in 1992, in Hong Kong. Kerry is recruited to CHERUB in 1998, after losing both her parents in an apartment block fire in 1995, and being found wandering the streets alone. Kerry is James' basic training partner, and they share an on/off romance between the books Class A and The Fall. In Class A, she accompanies James Adams, Kyle Blueman and Nicole Eddison on the mission, posing as an adoptive sister. After breaking up with James in The Fall, she dates Bruce Norris, however it is revealed in The Sleepwalker that she still harbours some feelings for James, also in The General Kerry breaks up with Bruce in the very end. She ends up going out with James in the end of Brigands MC. At the end of Shadow Wave, Kerry gets accepted in Stanford University and goes there with James.
Born Aled Thomas in 1992, Prestatyn, Wales. James met Bruce when he had his martial arts test, and has since been on missions with him. Though he acts tough, he sleeps with a blue teddy bear. In the book Mad Dogs, he is seen to be going out with Kerry and this relationship is continued in The Sleepwalker and The General. However, the last line of The General mentions that Kerry and Bruce have had a row and had broken up. He later goes out with Bethany Parker and has sex with her, but they break up, too. In Mad Dogs he goes with James in their mission to infiltrate the Mad Dogs football club and is given a black shirt by Zara for his outstanding performance.
Born in 1990. Another agent who was James girlfriend from The Fall to The General. She is bulky and curvy and is said to have large breasts. She has an intense dislike for people who are of a higher rank but younger than her. She first featured in The Killing, and is one year older than James Adams and two years older than James's previous girlfriend. She split up with him, after having sex with Michael Hendry (who she briefly dated for 4 weeks after the end of her 13 month relationship with James) in The General. Also, she forgives James for having sex with Sasha Thompsons daughter (Lois Thompson) in Mad Dogs. She last appeared in The General, and comes back to Chloe Blake's wedding on campus in Shadow Wave.
Born Dante Scott in 1994, Salcombe Devon. Dante made his first appearance in Brigands MC. According to Muchamore, he is the most important character introduction since Rat in Divine Madness. He joined CHERUB after his parents and all but one sibling, his sister Holly, were murdered by a biker gang, known as the Brigands Motorcycle Club. He rescues his eighteen-month old sister Holly and they both escape. After two months,he was recruited to Cherub with Lauren, and began training at the same time as her, completing it while she had to restart. Four years later he had spent the past 32 months on a mission in Belfast, enough to go straight from grey to black shirt (after Zara bent the rules slightly). He then went on a mission with Lauren and James in Brigands M.C. in which he infiltrates the biker gang that killed his family.
Born Jennifer Amy Pegg in 1987, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England. In 1988, her father and younger brother died in a car accident, and her mother died of throat cancer. Amy is physically strong and skilled in karate, judo and aikido. She excels at sports, especially swimming and diving. Amy is color blind.
Amy was in CHERUB from 1992-2004. In The Recruit, Amy was James's swimming instructor, and acted as his elder sister on his first mission. In Class A, she taught James computer hacking skills he needed during his mission. She retired from CHERUB after achieving six A-levels (four in foreign languages). She moved to Australia to live with her brother John, got a job as a security guard, then began studying Marine Biology at the University of Cairns in Australia. She also appeared in Divine Madness and Shadow Wave.
In The new book "People's Republic" Amy is a fairly important character, helping Ryan throughout the mission while acting as his older sister.
Born Ahmed Shakeel in 1992, Egypt. Shakeel was on basic training with James and Kerry. His father was an asylum seeker from Egypt who died as a result of a heart attack. He excels at team sports,especially rugby, which makes up for his underperformance in academic subjects by CHERUB standards. He is a good friend of James.
Born Nikki Vandome in 1992, Tottenham, London, England. Nicole started basic training with James and Kerry, but dropped out on her first day, after being told she was too fat. She eventually completed basic training, but was permanently excluded from CHERUB after snorting cocaine in Class A. She has an intense disliking for old people, as her parents and two brothers were killed by a half-blind old man who ran them over but got away with it, because the authorities judged him not as aware of his actions. After the Government ran tests on him, it turned out that he could barely see past his own nose.
Born Jordan Lindsay in 1991, Ipswich. He first appeared in The Fall as Gabrielle O'Brien's boyfriend, and arguably his biggest role in any book was Mad Dogs, where he tried infiltrating a gang known as the Slasher Boys. The mission went catastrophically wrong as Gabrielle got stabbed, but the mission carried on. He broke up with Gabrielle after cheating on her for Dana, James' girlfriend. He and James had a fight during a football match. Unlike Gabrielle, he isn't from the Caribbean, though could pass for it, as in Mad Dogs it says he was born and grew up in England.
Born Christopher Holmes in 1994, Salford, England. James makes him cry in The Killing by slapping him after his breakup with Kerry. He is later Rat's best friend, accompanying Rat in his mission in Dark Sun. He went out with Bethany before she dumped him for Bruce Norris.
Born David Rogers in 1988, Eastry, Kent, England. Dave is James's partner in Maximum Security and in The Killing. He is known as 'one of the coolest guys on campus', having won all martial art competitions which he had entered, as well as having an exceptional success rate on missions. He is physically described as fit and good looking. In the past he impregnated another member of CHERUB. He retired from CHERUB after The Killing, but makes a brief return in The Sleepwalker.he is known for getting girls, having sex, and then treating them like dirt.
Born Gabrielle Ruthven in Jamaica in 1991. Gabrielle's parents had worked with CHERUB agents on previous missions until their death. Gabrielle is Kerry Chang's best friend and was on basic training with Kerry and James. In Mad Dogs, she almost dies after getting stabbed. She breaks up with her boyfriend Michael in The General when she discovers him cheating on her.
Born Elissa Bethany Paloma in Newcastle Under Lyme, England. Bethany is Lauren's best friend. James generally can't stand her, often to the annoyance of Lauren. Her brother is Jake Parker, and she obtains her navy shirt at the start of The Sleepwalker. Her parents died in a sightseeing helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon in 2001. She is described as medium build with dark hair, green eyes and she is also described as having massive jugs by Ronan Walsh in The General. In Shadow Wave, she is expelled from CHERUB for keeping in contact with a boy she met on a mission after it had ended, and now lives close to campus.
Born Jacob Paloma in 1996, Newcastle Under Lyme, England. Jake is Bethany's younger brother, he accompanies Lauren on a mission in The Sleepwalker. His parents died in a sightseeing helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon in 2001. Jake and Lauren have a long - standing rivalry, and usually Lauren threatens all sorts of things until another CHERUB member intervenes.
Born Rathbone Regan in 1994, Northern Territory, Australia. Rat was brought up under harsh physical conditions in the Australian Outback, as youngest son of the leader of a famous cult known as The Survivors. Rat is highly intelligent, although tests undertaken on CHERUB campus have failed to replicate the IQ of 197 that he claimed to possess while living in the Survivor's Ark. He secretly shares a relationship with Lauren, later telling everyone that they are going out in The Fall, but in Mad Dogs they decide to be 'just friends'. Rat is the main agent character in the mini book, Dark Sun. It is also revealed, in the Fall, that he has bushy hair after Lauren claimed that she didn't want to go out with 'a boy with a bird's nest mounted on its head'. In the book, 'The General' it's revealed during the war game that Rat and Lauren Adams have a relationship. And was also seen in the book "Divine Madness".
Born Connor Farnworth in 1993, Croydon, Greater London, England. Connor is Callum Reilly's identical twin, and was on basic training with James and Kerry. He completed the training the first time, whereas Callum dropped out because of his fractured wrist.
Born Callum Farnworth in 1993, Croydon, Surrey, England. Callum is Connor Reilly's identical twin, and was on basic training with James and Kerry. He had to drop out when he fractured his wrist, but completed training on his second attempt.
Born Kevin Peterson in 1997, Farnborough, England. Has a fear of heights, but he is rather rambunctious at times. His fear of heights and his anger, along with James and Bruce, help him through the pressure in The Fall. He also made a brief appearance in the General, sharing a room with Lauren, although being bullied by Bruce and James gave him weren't mentioned.
Born Megan Peterson in 2000: Kevin's younger sister. She lives on campus.
One of the CHERUB agents appearing in a couple the novels. He is currently attending university but comes back often to help out on campus. He has a very fit build. In The Recruit he and a mate "help" James learn how to swim, the hard way.
Ross is a police psychologist who looks after Dante for a while. He later becomes Chief of Police and calls in CHERUB to work against the Brigands.
Fahim Bin Hassam is the son of Hassam Bin Hassam - a suspect in the crash of a jet airliner - and was adopted by former chairman Dr. Terence McAfferty. He failed CHERUB entry tests due to his sleeptalking. Lauren Adams was saddend by this because she was fond of Fahim.
She first appears in Class A. She is Keith Moore's daughter and Junior Moore's twin sister. Nicole befriends her as per the mission and the two get along really well. She later becomes James's girlfriend (briefly) before being dumped in favor of Kerry. James's watch, which was with her, is crushed and sent back to him with a note "Hope you die slowly - April". She reappears in Mad Dogs briefly. She holds a grugde against James for dumping her when she was so infatuated by him. She is also worried about her twin, Junior as he is getting into a lot of trouble. She truly cares for Junior and Julie, her mother.
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