When the order comes for the Survivors to fall back into the Ark's fortified church, Rat suggests escaping through a sewage tank. James, Lauren and Rat are caught trying to escape and locked in a room with several young children. The raid begins, but the military are forced to fall back after one of their helicopters is shot down by the Survivors. They enter Joel's quarters to find that Susie has killed him, destroyed her data and fled the Ark, and the Ark is put into lockdown before the trio can escape. They are followed by Rat and are forced to reveal CHERUB's existence to him. With Help Earth's attack imminent, the Australian military prepares to storm the Ark, and James and Lauren attempt to retrieve Susie's data before the assault. Rat introduces James to Joel's wife Susie, who Lauren discovers is embezzling from the Survivors to bankroll Help Earth Rat also reveals that Susie is having an affair with Brian 'Bungle' Evans, a Help Earth operative whom James had previously encountered.

In the Ark, James befriends Rathbone 'Rat' Regan, the cynical son of Survivors founder Joel Regan who sees through the cult's brainwashing techniques. However, Barry kills the ASIS agents following them and reveals that the facility to be attacked is not in Australia as originally assumed, but instead in Indonesia. Dana manages to alert mission controller John Jones of the target. Meanwhile, Dana and another young Survivor, Eve Stannis, are recruited to aid Barry and his fellow Help Earth operative Nina Richards in a terrorist attack on a LNG terminal. James and Lauren are sent to the Survivor's elite boarding school in the Ark, the Survivors' isolated Outback headquarters. The cherubs go undercover in Australia and are soon recruited by the cult. Before James leaves, he and Kerry agree to give their relationship another try when he returns. James and Lauren Adams and Dana Smith are sent on a mission to infiltrate The Survivors, with the aim of infiltrating the higher echelons of the cult and discovering the extent of their connection with Help Earth.

An MI5 investigation into Cox's activities uncovers that Help Earth are being funded by wealthy Australian cult The Survivors, who are in turn profiting from terrorist attacks committed by Help Earth. After Clyde meets with Help Earth operative Barry Cox, Bruce follows Barry back to his hotel room and incapacitates him before stealing his documents, while Kerry thwarts the assassination attempt by swapping out the explosives Cox had given Clyde. Kerry Chang, Bruce Norris and Kyle Blueman are on a mission in Hong Kong to befriend Clyde Xu, a teenage environmentalist who has been recruited by Help Earth to assassinate an oil executive. In this novel, CHERUB agents James, Lauren, and Dana go to Australia to investigate a religious cult called the Survivors. Divine Madness is the fifth novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore.

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