causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels.
Guarding the corrupt governor’s family isn’t James Adams’ idea of the perfect mission, especially as it’s going to be his last as a CHERUB agent. And then retired colleague Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own.
James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his oldest friend.
Plus:
James gets back on his ER5 to tidy up unfinished business from Brigands M.C.
James and Kerry – how will it end?
James meets his dad.
Uncle Ron gets out of prison.
The final epilogue – find out what happens to all the major characters.
Get ready for James’ final adventure – Shadow Wave coming soon.
Read on for The Switch –
Callum and Connor star in a special
CHERUB bonus story!
CHERUB: THE SWITCH
Wednesday, 10.37 a.m.
‘So what’s with you two?’ Maureen Evans asked.
As an assistant mission controller Maureen didn’t get her own office, but her boss Chloe was working in Devon and wouldn’t be back any time soon. The two fourteen-year-olds facing her across Chloe’s desk were identical twins. Fair haired, slim, not bad looking.
Callum had been dragged away from a training exercise. He’d left muddy boots at the door, but still had beads of sweat streaking down his face and dark patches under the arms of his navy CHERUB shirt. Connor had been taken out of maths class, so his hair was carefully spiked and he wasn’t stinking up the room.
Neither twin said a word.
‘I’ve got a mission,’ Maureen explained. ‘We’ll need to make a fast switch. I don’t care what your personal problems are, I need to know if you can work together and I need the answer now.’
Connor broke the silence. ‘My problem is that my brother is a selfish, lying dickhead.’
Callum swelled up in his seat. ‘I’m a dickhead? You’re just pissed off because you struck out as usual.’
‘Just die,’ Connor shouted. ‘That girl was after me the whole time. You ripped me off.’
Maureen didn’t understand and didn’t particularly want to understand, but she needed the two lads for her mission. ‘Why don’t you both calm down and explain what happened?’
They spoke simultaneously:
‘This cheating turd—’
‘He’s a total scumbag, you can’t reason with him—’
Maureen took a breath, pointed at Connor and spoke firmly. ‘You first.’
Connor glowered at his brother as he began to explain. ‘We went to the bowling alley Saturday night. I got talking to this girl on the next lane. We were getting along great. Eating my nachos, joking about and stuff. But I offered to buy the girl a coke, then realised I didn’t have any money. Tight-wad here wouldn’t lend me a cent—’
Callum interrupted. ‘You always borrow money and never pay me back. You owe me about thirty quid.’
Connor stood up and yelped indignantly. ‘I owe you money,’ he gasped. ‘You’re the one who borrowed fifty euros when we were at summer hostel, and what about my G-Star jeans that you’ve had for three months?’
Callum stood up and the twins went eyeball to eyeball. ‘You said I could have those jeans, so don’t give me that shit. And you wore my leather jacket for months and brought it back with the pocket hanging off.’
‘Sit down,’ Maureen shouted. She pointed at Callum. ‘You can have your say when he’s finished his story.’
The twins made identical sighs as they settled back into their chairs. Maureen smiled at how they sat forwards with their ankles crossed: they acted the same even when they hated each other.
‘Please continue your fascinating story, Connor,’ Maureen said.
‘Typical, take his side,’ Callum moaned, as he slumped in the chair and tipped his head back.
‘Callum wouldn’t lend me shit, so I went off to find Mo, who was playing a few lanes over. Then I went off to get the cokes. There was a mega queue, so I was gone for ages and when I get back this piece of work is sitting with my girl, hands up her shirt and tongue down her neck.’
Maureen stifled a smile.
‘She thought you’d ditched her,’ Callum explained. ‘I just wandered over and she started being really friendly.’
‘She thought you were me,’ Connor yelled, standing up again. ‘Don’t act all innocent. You saw me chatting her up for over half an hour. What you did was low and doing it to your own twin was lower than low.’
The boys were out of their seats again. Connor bunched his fist, but Callum got the first punch in, going for the