Alex Rider

Infobox Novel series
name = Alex Rider
books = Stormbreaker
Point Blanc
Skeleton Key
Eagle Strike
Scorpia
Ark Angel
Snakehead
author = Anthony Horowitz


image_caption = Covers of all the books in the "Alex Rider" series.
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = Spy fiction
publisher = Walker Books
pub_date = September 4, 2000
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Alex Rider" is a series of spy novels by English author Anthony Horowitz about a young spy named Alex Rider. Seven novels have been published to date. The first novel, "Stormbreaker", was first released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted for a motion picture in 2006. The novels are published by Walker Books in the United Kingdom and by Puffin in the United States. Due to primarily being spy fiction, the series is compared to James Bond, the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore, [" [http://cherubvsalex.googlepages.com/home Cherub Vs. Alex] ". Retrieved June 1, 2008] the "Six of Hearts" books by Jack Heath and the "Jimmy Coates" series by Joe Craig.

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Plot summary

The first book opens with a 14-year-old orphan Alex Rider learning that his guardian and uncle, Ian Rider, has died in a car accident. Suspicious about the circumstances of his uncle's death, Alex decides to investigate and discovers that Ian was assassinated while working for MI6. MI6 recruit Alex and place him in a gruelling SAS training camp, before sending him undercover to continue his uncle's investigation of Herod Sayle, a lebanese businessman. Although successful in his mission, Alex decides not to continue as a teenage spy, but MI6 keep finding new missions on which he would be useful and new ways to rope him in.The Alex Rider series has been a great success and has introduced many teenagers to reading. The book Stormbreaker was also made a film.

Characters

When not on missions, Alex lives with his best friend Jack Starbright, a young American woman. She had been living in his uncle's house as a 'caretaker' before his death. After his uncle's death (due to assassination by Alex's worst enemy and professional killer - Yassen Gregorovich), Jack became his legal guardian and stayed in England to care for him. She and Alex live in Chelsea, London, where he attends the local Brooklands School. His school life is often interrupted by the missions set by MI6. Alan Blunt, head of MI6's Special Operations Branch and his second-in-command, Mrs Jones, frequently appear in the novels, usually to brief and debrief Alex about his missions.

Future

During an interview with Faheem Shaikh, Anthony Horowitz exclusively revealed an excerpt from his new book about teenage spy Alex Rider:

:"Alex, do you really think you are the only one?" he said "We offer a way out, an escape, they chase us but we live. Help us save others who are bound by the same shackles, Alex. Join us."

Horowitz will start writing the eighth Alex Rider book in October or November 2008. He had previously said that the book would focus on the teenage years of Gregorovich, but that idea has been put off for the ninth book. He plans to set the eighth book partly in Africa, and also stated that there would be two more after it, for a total of ten books in the series. [ [http://www.citv.co.uk/page.asp?partid=280#Scene_1 CITV: Anthony Horowitz! ] ] [ [http://anthonyhorowitz.com/newscentre/alexrider/summer-madness-in-scotland-and-tea-with-terrorists/63/ anthonyhorowitz.com » SUMMER – MADNESS IN SCOTLAND AND TEA WITH TERRORISTS ] ]

Franchise

Novels

#"Stormbreaker" (September 4, 2000)
#"Point Blanc" (September 3, 2001) (entitled "Point Blank" in the United States)
#"Skeleton Key" (July 8, 2002)
#"Eagle Strike" (April 7, 2003)
#"Scorpia" (April 1, 2004)
#"Ark Angel" (April 1, 2005)
#"Snakehead" (October 31, 2007)

Graphic novels

*"" (July, 2006 - UK) (October, 2006 - USA)
*"" (September 2007 - UK) (December, 2007 - USA)

upplementary books

*"" (October 17, 2005)
*"" (October 6, 2008) [ [http://www.walker.co.uk/Alex-Rider-The-Mission-Files-9781406301984.aspx Walker Books - Alex Rider: The Mission Files ] ]

hort stories

*"" (February 9, 2003)
*"" (January 1, 2007)

Other media

*Film: "Stormbreaker" (July 21, 2006)
*Video game: "" for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance (September 25, 2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.alexrider.com/ Official website of the books]
* [http://www.stormbreaker.com/ Official website of the film]