STORMBREAKER

Book 1 in the ALEX RIDER series

by ANTHONY HOROWITZ

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New softcover book, the first in the exciting series, 238 pages. Movie tie-in edition published 2006. Includes 8 pages of full-colour movie photos.

Meet Alex Rider, the world's most reluctant teenage spy

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down.

Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission - to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire.

His destination is the depths of Cornwall, where Middle Eastern multimillionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers. Sayle’s offered to give one free to every school in the country - but MI6 think there’s more to the gift than meets the eye.

Only Alex can find out the truth. But time is running out and he soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last...

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About the author:

Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) is an English author and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including the Power of Five, Alex Rider and Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels. He is the creator and writer of the television series Foyle's War.

From the age of eight, Horowitz knew he wanted to be a writer, realizing "the only time when I'm totally happy is when I'm writing".

Horowitz now lives in North London with his wife Jill Green, whom he married in Hong Kong in 1988. Green produces Foyle's War, the series Horowitz writes for ITV. They have two sons, Nicholas and Cassian. Horowitz credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research.

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Stormbreaker Alex Rider series Book 1 by Anthony Horowitz