Robert Muchamore

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 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 and CHERUB - The Killing are out in the UK. Robert Muchamore's latest novel, CHERUB - Divine Madness, is now released in the UK. His sixth book, Man vs Beast, is due for publication in late 2006. Early 2007 will see the release of The Fall. 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.

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