Muchamore, Robert (2011). People's Republic. Aramov. Vol.1. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-4449-0610-3.

Anyways, I have to comment about those final chapters... I never thought anything would happen at the end of James's mission... that was tough... and I still can't believe James killed a guy... that must have affected James a lot... poor kid. Many Cherub sailors are in their late teens or early twenties but the flexibility of the class and the Cherub’s great sailing qualities mean that they are also attractive to many older sailors. In the 1960s and 1970s the Cherub was a popular sailing dinghy in New Zealand when they were mainly amateur built. I loved this book! It's SOOO much better than the first one and I really really liked it! I had higher expectations for this book, so... thank gods it was good enough! The Cherub was the first significant design from John Spencer, and many would put it as the starting point of the whole Antipodean Sailing boom. The Cherub grew very fast in New Zealand in the 50s, about 450 boats in the first 8 years. This was mainly due to what was effectively a partnership between Sea Spray magazine and John Spencer. Sea Spray allowed Spencer almost as much space as he wanted to provide publicity and `how to' construction articles. In fact for a time Sea Spray was the official Cherub HQ, keeping the sail number register, and being the central point for all correspondence from the town associations. Bruce, you run off and try to open a door,’ James gasped. ‘I’ll try fending it off with this pipe.’In 1995 there was a surprise development in Australia. Iain Murray & Associates designed a Cherub to the UK rules, complete with asymmetric spinnaker, for Hugh Treharne (Tactician on Australia 2 in 1983 amongst other achievements) and some other prominent Australian sailors. They wanted a suitable boat for their sons to sail in-between the junior classes and the skiffs, and felt that the International rules Cherub with its boxy hull shape and conventional spinnaker was too far removed from the mainstream of development. Their initiative was not greeted with enthusiasm by the Australian Cherub Class, and the boats were registered in the UK.

Initially, the series follows James Choke, better known as James Adams (his adopted name at CHERUB), as he enters CHERUB and performs various missions. However, the focus later expands to other characters, such as James' sister Lauren and several other characters who work alongside him and in separate missions. The initial series of 12 novels runs from the recruitment of Adams aged 11 to his retirement from CHERUB at age 17. The second series of five novels, Aramov, follows Ryan Sharma, another CHERUB agent; James Adams reappears in this series as a CHERUB staff member. In the 60s Cherub design in the UK was very much in the mainstream of dinghy design at that period. A Cherub hull of that era tends to look pretty much like a baby Scorpion. In the late 60s the first of many infusions of antipodean ideas occurred. John Spencer's mk 7 design was introduced into the UK, which had a wider and flatter hull shape, and planed appreciably faster. No sign,’ Bruce said. ‘Which is definitely weird. They’d have to be deaf not to hear that psycho mutt barking at us.’ The Class grew in popularity in New Zealand, and then spread to Australia. Apparently the first Cherub to reach Australia did so carried in a Flying Boat being flown by one Frank Bethwaite, a name that appears elsewhere in this story. Robert Muchamore was born in 1972 and spent thirteen years working as a private investigator. CHERUB: Class A is his second novel in the series.Laura,’ James barked. ‘When did you last see the bad guys? Have you got any idea where they might be?’ Better give us a minute,’ James huffed, leaning forward and resting his palms against his knees. ‘I’m wiped.’ James half hoped the dog would go after Bruce, but it kept its eyes fixed, pacing closer to James until he could feel its damp breath on his legs. Bruce shook his head. ‘I thought I’d make sure you weren’t being eaten first, even if it meant we got caught.’ The book was originally to be titled Class A 'Drugs, Cars & Guns, but Hodder deemed it too inappropriate for a children's book, so Muchamore changed the title to Class A. [1]