The thirteenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! Ryan is on his first mission, and it's as big as they get ...Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire.

But he's got got no idea that this routine job will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and human trafficking, or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB's history. For official purposes, these children do not exist.