Cherub: The Recruit Graphic Novel

Key Features

• The bestselling Cherub brand takes its huge appeal into graphic novel format.
• Robert Muchamores bestselling novel The Recruit is now given a whole new lease of life with this graphic novel version.
• The dark and highly evocative artwork from award-winning illustrator John Aggs retains the original novels gritty feel.
• Ian Edgintons accomplished adaptation is faithful to the original novel while bringing freshness to a familiar story.
• This high-quality graphic novel comes hot on the heels of other successful graphic novel adaptations of books such as Silverfin and Stormbreaker.
• The new format will draw in new readers - whether teens or graphic novel readers - as well as exisiting Cherub fans.

About the Book: Cherub: The Recruit Graphic Novel

A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for Cherub.James is a 12-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, sent to a children's home when his mother dies and his stepfather disowns him. But Cherub is recruiting, and James is pinpointed as having potential. Taken under cover of darkness, he finds himself in a secret location - at the training centre for all Cherub agents. He faces extreme hardship while preparing for his first mission - to foil a suspected anthrax attack

About the Authors: Robert Muchamore, Ian Edginton

Robert Muchamore was born in Islington in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator. The Cherub series has won numerous awards, including the Red House Children's Book Award. Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer who became successful in American comics before returning to work for 2000 AD, a weekly British science-fiction-oriented comic. He has created his own series as well as adapting other titles, including H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. John Aggs is a British comic book artist who started out in webcomics, and in 2007 won the Grand Prize in the Tokyo Pop Rising Stars of Manga awards. Among his diverse work he has illustrated Philip Pullman's The Adventures of John Blake.