Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)

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This thriller/action is Anthony’s second book in Alex Rider series. It is also published by the Penguins Group. Point Blank was written for kids aged between 12 and 16. The age range also reflects readability and it doesn’t necessarily reflect content appropriateness. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. year-old Alex is an orphan. Around 3 weeks prior to the start of the first book in the series, Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, who had been raising him, dies in a car crash. Alex later finds out that his uncle used to be a secret agent who was working for M16, a premier spy agency in Britain. M16 later forces Alex to take up his uncle’s place in the spy operation. The adventure constitutes the opening book in the series.

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Variety Staff (24 July 2006). " 'Stormbreaker' no B.O. whirlwind". Variety . Retrieved 6 April 2023. The gadgets include a grappling hook disguised as a yo-yo, acne cream that can dissolve metal, and a Nintendo Gameboy that drops smoke grenades among many other functions. Alex gains access to Sayle Enterprises by impersonating Felix Lester, a boy who had won a contest to visit the plant and be the first to use a Stormbreaker computer. Sayle gives Alex a tour of his mansion, which includes a giant aquarium containing a poisonous Man of War jellyfish. Alex also meets his two servants, a disfigured man named Mr. Grin who used to be a circus performer, and an icy German assistant named Nadia Vole. Alex notices workers unloading metal cases from a submarine. When one accidentally drops a case, he is shot by Gregorovich. Anthony Horowitz is on the Old Vic Theatre’s board. He frequently contributes to a wide range of national magazines and newspapers on subjects that range from education to politics and currently he has one travel column in The Telegraph. Anthony has been the patron to the East Anglia Children Hospices and Kidscape, an anti-bullying charity since 2008. A film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2006, which underperformed at the box office and earned lukewarm reception. in Cornwall, Sayle shows Alex around his mansion, which houses a large jellyfish aquarium containing a giant Portuguese Man o' War. Alex also meets Mr. Grin, a henchman whose name derives from his time as a circus performer, catching knives with his teeth. An accident when his mother distracted him in one of his performances left him without a tongue and two large scars which give him the appearance of constant smiling.

Anthony Horowitz is among the most successful and prolific writers working in the United Kingdom. He is unique for working across many media. Anthony Horowitz is a born polymath; juggling writing TV series, films, books, plays and journalism. The series as a whole is heavily inspired by James Bond. The first line of the novel ("When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.") echoes the opening line of Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel ("The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning."). They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle’s killers . . . Moreover, the movie changes events so that Alex and K-Unit are imprisoned after failing a night-time training exercise.

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Alex decides to pose as a genius boy. In the process, Sayle invites Alex to test out his latest state-of-the-art computer’s system, Stormbreaker. Herod Sayle’s seemingly altruistic plans to give the Stormbreakers to each and every secondary school in UK have stirred the suspicion of MI6. Just before the crash, Ian Rider had sent a very urgent message to Mr. Blunt insisting that Stormbreakers should not leave the plant. S T O R M B R E A K E Rperhaps.” He gestured again. He used his hands likea magician, as if he were about to produce a fan ofcards. “I have the office next door. Just here . . .” They went into 1505. It was a large, square roomwith three windows looking out over the station.There was a flutter of red and blue outside and Alexremembered the flag he had seen. The flagpole wasright next to the office. Inside there was a desk andchair, a couple of sofas, in the corner a fridge, on thewall a couple of prints. A boring executive’s office.Perfect for a boring executive. “Please, Alex. Sit down,” Crawley said. He wentover to the fridge. “Can I get you a drink?” “Do you have Coke?” “Yes.” Crawley opened a can and filled a glass,then handed it to Alex. “Ice?” “No, thanks.” Alex took a sip. It wasn’t Coke. Itwasn’t even Pepsi. He recognized the oversweet,slightly cloying taste of supermarket cola and wishedhe’d asked for water. “So what do you want to talkto me about?” “Your uncle’s will . . .” The telephone rang and with another hand sign,this one for “excuse me,” Crawley answered it. Hespoke for a few moments, then hung up again. “I’m November, 12, 2023 Anthony Horowitz Signing! Sunday 12th November 1.30pm Muswell Hill• CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP LONDON IN MUSWELL HILL When MI6 recognizes his potential, Alex Rider is armed with secret gadgets and sent on his first mission. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.Walker Books Ltd., 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ. Registered in England under Company No. 1378601 Waking up somewhere out in the country, Alex meets MI6 head Alan Blunt and his deputy, Lale "Tulip" Jones. They reveal the truth about his uncle's career, and explain that they had sent Ian to investigate Herod Sayle, a wealthy Lebanese businessman who has developed a revolutionary new computer, the Stormbreaker. Sayle plans to give a free Stormbreaker to every secondary school in the United Kingdom, accompanied by a grand activation ceremony in the Science Museum, supposedly as a gesture of thanks for the country taking him in when he was a child. In his last communication with them, Ian had warned MI6 that the Stormbreakers could not be allowed to leave Sayle's manufacturing plant, but before he could explain, he was assassinated by Yassen Gregorovich, a professional killer apparently under Sayle's employ, on the return to London.