| This fast paced action series will have you at
the edge of your seat - more than the latest action blockbuster on the big
screen!
Really! I'm being serious! I don't really read enough books
because I find it quite hard to find a story I like - and I just could not
put these down! Anyway, the series is about Alex Rider - a 14 year-old boy
from London whose life always was somewhat - dysfunctional. His parents are
not mentioned until the last book (it's such a shock that I cannot tell you
what happens) and we presume them dead throughout. He lived with his Uncle
and housekeeper until his uncle was murdered, and having been told it was a
simple car crash, Alex's curiosity gets the better of him. Alex is then
recruited into MI6 (who his uncle really worked for - not bank as he was
told) and is blackmailed into going on dangerous missions for the special
operations unit - after all, who would suspect a kid?
Fast paced action - plays out like a movie - gripping stuff!
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From The Book:
Meet Alex Rider, The reluctant teenage spy.
When his guardian dies in suspicious
circumstances, Alex Rider goes from schoolboy to super spy within days as
his world is turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to
take part in gruelling SAS training. Then, armed with his own special set of
secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission. His destination is the depths
of Cornwall, where middle-eastern multi-millionaire 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 thinks there's more to the
gift than meets the eye. Only Alex can find out the truth. But time is
running out and Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his
first assignment may well be his last... |
