![]() ![]() Come along for the thrilling ride of a lifetime. Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. ![]() The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Armed only with a false ID and a new collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening there.Īlex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy - an exclusive school for rebellious rich kids, run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high on an isolated mountain peak in the French Alps. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead. But he is about to, and once he does, there is no turning back. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. Paperback (November 12th, 2009): $16.They told him his uncle died in an accident.Juvenile Fiction / Thrillers & Suspense.Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories.A master of the spy thriller, Anthony is the only writer authorized by both the Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming Estates to write original Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, respectively. Anthony lives with his wife in London, England they are parents to two grown boys. And he is, of course, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider novels, which have become bestsellers the world over, spawned a major motion picture, and a line of graphic novels. Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia.įrom the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.Īnthony Horowitz () is a world-renowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. ![]() ![]() Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!Īlex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time-from #1 New York Times bestselling author!Īlex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. ![]()
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