He creates cliffhangers at the end of each chapter and makes you want to read the book at once. He keeps the reader several times in ignorance, just gives vague instructions and keeps the tension in the story.

The writer has fascinated me the whole story and it is also pleasant to read, because everything is explained clearly. However, the story can’t happen in real life, some occurrences are unlikely. I like the book, because it is has a kind of James Bond theme. Furthermore, he is serious and sportive and has a lot of perseverance. He is a tough and smart boy, who loves a bit of adventure and dares much like swimming in an underwater river in the cave. He can bungee jump, drive a car and shoot with a firearm. He is a 14 years old well-trained fighter. Herod escapes and kidnaps Alex a few days later to murder him, but then someone shoots Herod in his back and then the story ends.Īlex is the main character of the book. Alex threatens the pilot with a gun and let him fly to London.

He escapes and get on board of an aircraft. Herod Sayle, the owner of the company, discovers Alex and locks him up. The deadly poison will spray out of the computer and kill thousands of children. He discovers that there is a certain virus in all the computers that spreads a poison once the president of England connects each computer to each other at the opening of the Science Museum. That company makes cheap supercomputers called Stormbreaker, developed for all schools. Through a hidden cave Alex enters the ‘’Bio secured area’’ of the company named Sayle Enterprises. It turns out that his uncle did the same mission and hasn’t survived it. Alex is taken to a military camp, where he is trained to the Special Forces in two weeks time. He goes to a junkyard, and finds the car of Ian, which is not even broken. Alex doesn’t trust him, so he is going to investigate what really happened. Blunt, ‘’the president of the bank’’, where his uncle ‘worked’. Alex doesn’t understand why he’s killed, because always his uncle was very careful. Suddenly his uncle is killed by a traffic accident, according to the police. He doesn’t know his parents, because they were killed in an accident shortly after his birth. Some stories of his books became available on DVD.Īlex Rider (the main character) lives with his uncle Ian. Then he resigned his job and became the writer of the Alex Rider series. In the meantime he wrote some books that became popular. He later studied at the University of York, after that he became a text writer at an advertising agency. He had an unhappy childhood at a school in Harrow, London. Publication date: 2000 (Walker Books), 2001 (Puffin Books)Īnthony Horowitz was born in ’55 in Great Britain and is an English author who has written a number of children’s books.

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