James returns to CHERUB campus to attend a wedding between mission controller Chloe Blake and her fiancé . At the wedding , he is reunited with several ex-CHERUB agents and former staff members , including : the cruel former head instructor Norman Large , his ex-girlfriend Dana Smith and his best friend and retired agent Kyle Blueman . Kyle finds a mission briefing for James to act as the son of David Secombe , an important figure in the UK Government who is negotiating a weapons deal with Malaysian Defence Minister Tan Abdullah . Kyle tells James about how , when he was assisting in a CHERUB basic training course in Malaysia in 2004 , he met a teenager named Aizat Rakyat who told him how Abdullah was demolishing native villages to make way for building luxury hotels . When the Boxing Day tsunami struck , he used the disaster to " evacuate " the villagers and build more hotels in place . James , disgusted , quits the mission and joins Kyle in a scheme to embarrass Abdullah
Boxing Day tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Shadow Wave