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Robert Muchamore (born 1972) is the English author of the CHERUB series of books for children. He has recently quit his job as a London based private investigator to become a full-time writer. The reason for this being the rather comic out-burst, which the author later admitted to fans on his official CHERUB forums, where he threw a box of antiseptic wipes at his boss.

The books follow the life of James Adams (formerly James Choke), a member of CHERUB - a top-secret division of British Intelligence. The organization recruits children (usually orphans) and trains them as spies. Once they are qualified as agents, they are sent all over the world to bring down criminal organizations, their success being based on the fact that criminals are highly unlikely to suspect that their child's new school friend is hacking into their computer, planting bugs in their house, and tracking every movement they make.

Books in the CHERUB series include: CHERUB - The Recruit, CHERUB - Class A (also known as The Dealer in USA),CHERUB - Maximum security, CHERUB - The Killing, CHERUB - Divine Madness, and CHERUB - Man Vs Beast are out in the UK. A mistake by Hodder has meant that 345 early copies of MVB were released about 4 months early. Early 2007 will see the release of The Fall. After "The Fall" is Mad Dogs which was recently announced by Robert Muchamore. After Mad Dogs, Robert Muchamore said he was going to call the book The Sleepwalker, but that title didn't stick. Robert Muchamore is planning to create in total 10 CHERUB books.

The series is published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Simon & Schuster, Inc. in the US. The Recruit was published in Germany by Bertelsmann in August 2005 and in Russia by Egmont in late 2005. The book will be published in Thailand in 2006. Currently the Book "Top Secret 2, Heiße Ware" (=German version of Class A) Has been published. 

The first novel, CHERUB: The Recruit has won the 2005 Red House Children's book of the year award.