Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)

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Alex Rider is a 14-year-old schoolboy who lives with his uncle Ian and their housekeeper Jack Starbright. While everyone else streamed out, hemade his way to the secretary’s office and borroweda copy of the Yellow Pages. It was ateenager’s bike, with a cut down Reynolds 531 frame,but the wheels were full-size so he could ride at speedwith hardly any rolling resistance. In the distance a bulldozer coughed intolife, then roared down on a battered Ford Taurus, itsmetal claw smashing through the window to scoop upthe vehicle and carry it away.

Initially, the trip goes well, with Alex finding a cryptic diagram made by his uncle Ian in the canopy of his four-poster bed. Staying in the same room where his uncle stayed, Alex finds a strange diagram that Ian drew in the canopy of his bed. Bower’, in 1979, he found himself as a well-regarded children’s author with more work to come in the following years. Having a graphic-novel adaptation as well in 2010, its popularity has continued to endure since it was first published. It was included in the New York Times Best Seller list and won a California Young Reader Medal in 2005.

He came out of Liverpool Street tube station justafter four-fifteen that afternoon, still wearing his schoolclothes: dark blue jacket, gray trousers, striped tie.

Somehow he managed to get through the rest ofthe day, but by the time the final bell rang, his mindwas made up. The MI6 agents blackmail Alex by threatening to deport Jack back to America, sell his house, and send him away to a boarding school unless he helps them investigate Sayle. He survives by tricking the guards into crashing: one collides with an electric fence while the other falls off a cliff face.Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry. One day, Alex is told that his uncle has died in a car crash, but quickly discovers that his uncle was in fact a spy working for MI6 and was murdered.