Despite nearly quitting after spending Christmas night outside in their underwear, they both pass. Shortly after arriving back on campus, he finds out that Lauren has joined CHERUB as well and Ron has been sentenced to nine years in jail for physically abusing her and selling contraband cigarettes. Two months later, Amy tells James that their swimming lessons are over, and they have a mission together. Overseen by mission controller Ewart Asker, they are to stay with Cathy Dunn at Fort Harmony, a hippy commune in Wales. There, they discover that brothers Fire and World Dunn are planning an anthrax attack against 200 oil executives and politicians, James is found to touch the anthrax and is hospitalised until he is told that there was no harm in that type of anthrax., at Petrocon, an oil conference held in the nearby Green Brooke Conference Centre. They successfully prevent the attack, although accomplice Brian "Bungle" Evans manages to escape. For his exemplary job in the mission, James is awarded a navy CHERUB T-shirt. Characters Development and publication Development for both The Recruit and the CHERUB series as a whole began in 1999 when Muchamore was visiting his sister in Australia and found his twelve-year-old nephew complaining about the lack of any good reading material. In 2001, Muchamore began working on an unnamed novel, KN1 (Kids novel 1). This draft was more violent than the published version, with James slashing Samantha's face open with broken glass. Robert Muchamore didn't approach a literary agent until Autumn 2002. By this time the novel was called CHERUB 1.0. He was rejected by the first agent but taken on by the second. Many different publishing companies disliked the novel and rejected Muchamore once again. In March 2003, Hodder Children's Books purchased CHERUB 1.0 and an unnamed sequel, both for release in 2004. Translation The Recruit has been translated into 20 languages, including: Czech - Nováček (The Novice) Chinese - 愤怒的城堡 (Angry Castle) French - 100 Jours en Enfer (100 Days In Hell) German - Top Secret: Der Agent (Top Secret: The agent) Japanese - スカウト (Scout) Polish - Rekrut Portuguese - O Recruta Russian - Новобранец (The Rookie) Spanish - Entrenamiento Básico (Basic Training) Norwegian - Rekrutten Danish - Ilddåb (Firebirth) Dutch - Top Secret Hebrew - מלאך: הגיוס (Angel: The Recruitment) Adaptations Graphic novel A graphic novel adaption of the book, adapted by Ian Edginton and