Rat is recruited as a CHERUB agent and the four return to campus.A teenage special agent risks being brainwashed when he heads to the Outback to infiltrate a cult in this suspenseful CHERUB novel, featuring a striking new look!ĬHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented-and all under the age of seventeen. Dana is awarded a navy shirt, while all James gets is a stomach bug caught in the sewage system. Rat is reported dead, but is revealed to be alive and going out with Lauren, who receives a black shirt. The now nine-strong group get out, but later hear that in another ASIS attack, several dozen children were killed when a wall collapsed on them. A brief moment of panic is proved unfounded as Rat persuades the man that he is on a divine mission. James is making his way through the tank when an engineer appears. Rat says that the most likely way out is through the sewage system, so they go there. James reluctantly agrees, and they drag the half-asleep toddlers with them. When they manage to overpower her, Lauren points out that they need to take the kids with them or risk them dying. However, they are captured and locked in a room full of toddlers by a sadistic overseer. In the lull that follows, James, Rat and Lauren attempt an escape. A helicopter is shot down and dozens of troops are killed in the first attack. Having been waiting for an excuse to attack the Ark, elite troops are sent in to destroy it, despite the CHERUB agents' warnings that the cult is well-prepared for such an event. However, ASIS now knows of the links between Help Earth and the Survivors. Her attempts to warn the mission controllers fail, and she ends up having to stop the attack herself. There, she and Eve, another cult member, are told that they are to participate in a Help Earth mission to blow up an oil tanker. After a while, Lauren develops a crush on Rat, and he uses his influence with Susie Regan, one of his father's many wives, to get her and James jobs in the offices, rather than in the stifling warehouse or laundry rooms.ĭana, meanwhile, extremely depressed about her unspectacular role in the mission, is summoned to the head of the commune's office.

There, James befriends Rathbone 'Rat' Regan, son of the cult's founder. Lauren and James are accepted into an elite cult school in the Ark, the cult's headquarters. The 'family' starts going to cult meetings, and are eventually accepted into the commune. They have been sent to determine whether a cult, The Survivors, is associated with Help Earth, and as such are sent to a 'recruitment hotbed' area. James and Lauren Adams and Dana Smith are sent on a mission to Australia, posing as the children of an ASIS agent. In this novel, CHERUB agents James, Lauren, and Dana go to Australia to investigate a religious cult called the Survivors. Divine Madness is the fifth novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore.

Divine Madness by Robert Muchamore