Robert Muchamore Audiobooks

The idea arrived as a complaint. Robert Muchamore’s young nephew grumbled that there was nothing decent to read, and Muchamore, then thirteen years into a career as a private investigator, decided he would write something himself. Born in London in 1972, he had spent those years on surveillance and paperwork, work that gave him an unusually practical sense of how danger actually behaves: mostly boredom, briefly terror.

He started the manuscript in 2001. The Recruit introduced CHERUB, a branch of British intelligence staffed entirely by children on the reasoning that nobody ever suspects a twelve year old. It won the Red House Children’s Book Award in 2005 and grew into a run of seventeen novels, followed by the wartime prequel series Henderson’s Boys and later runs including Rock War and Robin Hood.

What distinguishes him is a refusal to soften anything. His agents swear, sulk, botch missions and get badly hurt, and the moral arithmetic is left for the reader to do. It is why the books have such a long record of turning non readers into readers.

CHERUB rewards being taken in order, and The Recruit is the front door: James Choke loses his mother, lands in care, and is drafted into an organisation he had no idea existed. From there the missions escalate through Class A, Divine Madness, Brigands M.C., Black Friday and Guardian Angel, each raising the stakes on the last.

Every title here is read by Simon Scardifield, and that consistency matters. He keeps James dry, faintly bored and entirely believable, letting the tension build without ever underlining it. Cherub: The Fall is the most reviewed of them with us and holds a strong rating.

Titles from the series keep landing on the site, so it is worth looking back for the ones you are still missing. Begin with whatever is available below and work outwards from there.