CHERUB: Class A
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| Author | Robert Muchamore |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | CHERUB |
| Genre(s) | Children's, Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Released | 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.
[edit] Plot summary
The book begins at the CHERUB summer hostel, where James, Bruce, Kerry, 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 medevac 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 on 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 is knocked 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. 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 Land Cruiser through a fence to escape. Keith is subsequently captured and the evidence provided by Keith himself helps put him into prison for 22 years. James returns to campus and spends a lot of time with his new girlfriend, Kerry.
