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 Alex Rider

This series is about a fourteen year old boy who is thrown into wild adventures. Sometimes of his own will, sometimes otherwise. These books are action packed, racy, and most importantly, they are very well researched. 

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Walker books

Genre: Action/Adventure

 

Books in the Series

Stormbreaker

Point Blanc

Skeleton Key

Eagle Strike

Scorpia

Ark Angel

Snakehead

 

Stormbreaker

Stormbreaker

Alex receives news that his only surviving relative, his uncle, has just been killed in a road accident. But the pieces of the puzzle don’t seem to fit. He realizes that his uncle worked not for a bank, but for Military Intelligence 6.

MI6 send Alex as a spy to complete the mission his uncle died before completing.Back to top

 

Point Blanc

Point Blanc

Alex is back at school after the Stormbreaker incident but fails to feel like a normal school boy. Trying to avenge the drug dealers that waylaid his friends, Alex creates a small ‘incident’ in the city of London.

MI6 promise a cover-up if he will go on another mission for them. This time he’s headed for the alps to a sinister school for spoilt millionaire children. Alex is sent to find out if it is just a school. Alex soon finds out that more that more horrifying events are taking place at Point Blanc.Back to top

 

Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

A Russian ex-army man and the President of Russia are meeting at an island in Cuba. This time Alex is sent, not by MI6, but the American CIA with two other agents. They are going undercover as a family of father, mother and son. Only, Alex is asked to stay out of the way and let ‘mummy and daddy’ do their work.

Alex, after nosing around discovers that what the other agents are looking for is nuclear weapons and there is also a plot to humiliate the Russian Prime Minister. When his accompanying agents are incapacitated, it’s up to Alex to save the world.Back to top

 

 

 

Eagle Strike

Eagle Strike

In this book, it’s Alex versus a pop star gone mad. Damian Cray, an English pop star is launching a video game like none other. When Alex realizes the connection between Cray and the mysterious bombing of his friend’s house, he decides to the bottom of the mystery.Back to top

 

Scorpia

Scorpia

Alex is in Venice on a school trip, and is looking for signs. He has been told to come and look for Scorpia in Venice if he ever wants to know the truth about his late father. He realizes that Scorpia is a criminal organization which his father worked for. The people from Scorpia tell him that MI6 cheated his father and even show him video footage to prove it. Feeling cheated, Alex wants o take revenge on MI6. But a sudden turn of events may change his mind…Back to top

 

Ark Angel

 

Ark Angel

Alex saves the son of a millionaire from terrorists and the boy’s father wishes to thank him. Alex soon learns that the boy’s father may not be as benevolent as he seems. The book ends dramatically, as Alex goes up in a space ship with an enemy who is determined to kill him.Back to top

 

Sankehead

 Snakehead

The Australians want Alex’s help to investigate the movement of refugees from Southeast Asia to Australia. An enticing offer for Alex, since he will be going with a person who was known to be very close to his father. Alex experiences the heat, dust and discomfort in Asia for the first time. He gets in close encounters with the local mafia. Finally he gets onto a ship which, supposed to be carrying toys to the coast of Australia is actually jam packed with refugees. There too he is caught. And sent to a far corner of Australia, where a fate worse than death awaits him. This time, it looks like there’s no way out.Back to top

 

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