History Literature / CHERUBSeries

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: {Many of the enemy gangs. Keith Moore's Gang in ''Class A'' is associated with a boxing club. The "notorious underworld figure" Sasha Thompson is allowed to run a neighbourhood football club, complete with teams for children. Also, the titular motorcycle gang in ''Brigands M.C.'' has redeveloped their clubhouse into a popular strip of restaurant, shops and apartments. However, [SubvertedTrope subverted]] that none of these groups are above genuine criminal activity like racketeering, selling drugs and murder, and they're the bad guys.

* ReassignedToAntartica: Recruitment missions are considered one of the worst tasks a CHERUB agent can be assigned to. Agents are essentially sent to crappy children's homes for weeks or even months at a time in order to find somebody they believe ''might'' have what it takes to join CHERUB. Its long, monotonous and not usually fruitful. This was actually how James was recruited the first book; Kyle was sent on a recruitment mission as punishment for bungling a real mission in the Caribbean and met him.

** Due to the nature of the missions, being around the world and centring around single criminals who are usually captured at the end, very rarely do characters LockedOutOfTheLoop of CHERUB come up again. Two notable exceptions from the first series are Brian "Bungle" Evans, from ''The Recruit'', who escaped justice at the end, enabling him to become relevant again for the events of ''Divine Madness'', and Keith "Junior" Moore Jr., introduced in ''Class A'', but becomes a major character again in ''Mad Dogs''. While Jane Oxford was captured in "Maximum Security" the missiles she stole were never found, until 7 years later in "Black Friday", where they have been reverse-engineered and are being manufactured in a factory in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. They are promptly blown up by James (who was supporting two members of the Aramov family working undercover in Ciudad Juarez) using the missile.