Robert Muchamore won the older reader's category for his action-packed thriller about a special agent called Cherub: The Recruit.

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The linchpin of the action is Jiang Cheng, a young travel agent and, in his spare time, a female impersonator, who is having an affair with Wang Ping, a college student and a married man whose wife hires a private eye to follow him.

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As the man was passing out, the agent shook him awake, then repeated the action twice.

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