Robert Kilgore Muchamore (born 26 December 1972)[1] is an English author of young adult fiction.

Robert Kilgore Muchamore was born in Tufnell Park, London, on 26 December 1972,[1] and is the youngest of four children; his father was a milkman and his mother a cleaning lady.

[2] Muchamore grew up in Tufnell Park and attended St. Johns Upper Holloway and Acland Burghley School, leaving with a D in A-Level Economics and aspired to be either an architect, photographer or writer.

[5] The CHERUB series follows the life of a character named James Adams (formerly James Choke) and his younger half-sister Lauren Adams (formerly Lauren Onions), a member of CHERUB (Charles Henderson's Espionage Research Unit B), a top-secret branch of the British Secret Service.

Once they have passed basic training, agents take part in missions, before compulsory retirement at the age of seventeen.

[6] Muchamore has written and published seventeen CHERUB novels and a World Book Day novella which combined have sold over 15,000,000 copies.

In 2014, it was announced that Muchamore would be writing another novel, Rock War, which has no connection to CHERUB or Henderson Boys, except a cameo appearance by one character.

It was published on 27 February 2014, and follows the story of Jay, Summer and Dylan entering a musical competition.

The story follows civil war in an unstated central African state, but most probably the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It tells a story bridging ten years of the lives of Harry and Charlie, aged 13 and 12 at the start of the book.