Thursday, December 18, 2008
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
A few weeks after he was born, Alex Rider’s parents were tragically killed in a plane crash. For the last fourteen years he has lived with his wealthy uncle Ian Rider in London. Suddenly his uncle is killed in an automobile accident, and fourteen-year-old Alex Rider’s is left on his own. The police say his uncle wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Alex finds this news almost impossible to believe. He knows how conscientious his uncle was about wearing seatbelts. After the funeral, Alex returns home to find someone has broken in and cleaned everything out of his uncle’s study. Now Alex really knows there is something mysterious about his uncle’s death. Alex decides to do a little investigating, locates his uncle’s car, and finds no sign of an accident but does find a flurry of bullet holes in the driver’s side door. When Alex visits Royal & General Bank, his uncle’s place of employment, he learns that his uncle wasn’t a banker at all and that Royal & General isn’t even really a bank, but a cover for MI6, England’s top-secret intelligence agency. There he also learns his uncle was actually murdered while on a mission for MI6. Only Alex can finish his uncle’s mission and find his uncle’s murderers. After having already narrowly escaping a car crusher’s jaws, crawling through a window on the fifteenth floor of the MI6 headquarters, the next few weeks of Alex’s life are filled with giant killer jelly fish, exploding zit cream, a Nintendo with X-ray vision, a scrap of paper with a strange drawing, underwater caverns, a deadly ATV ride, and a leap from an airplane. Can Alex survive all this and still save England from a mad man with a grudge against the British? Read Anthony Horowitz’s Stormbreaker, and follow Alex Rider on the adventure of a lifetime.
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