Stormbreaker: an Alex Rider adventure by Anthony HorowitzAlthough I had heard about the Alex Rider books, I really wasn't sure what I would be getting into when I opened the cover and began to read. As it turned out, once I opened the cover I didn't put the book down again until I was done. Full of suspense and non-stop action, Stormbreaker is the first in a series that I now plan on reading.
Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider wakes up late one night to a knock on the door from a policeman who relays the news that his uncle, Ian Rider, has died in a car accident. Alex has lived with Ian in London, England, since his parents were killed in a plane crash when he was a young child, and now he has no family left. Alex doesn't believe the policeman's story about Ian dying because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt because, as Alex knew well, Ian was a stickler for such things. Alex decides to find out what really happened.
When he finds his uncle's car in a junkyard with bullet holes in the windshield he vows revenge against his uncle's killers. But how? Who killed Ian? And why is the British spy agency, MI6, so interested in Alex?
Stormbreaker is a very fast-paced and exciting novel. Among other things, Alex has to go through basic training with men twice his age, learn how to drive an ATV while being chased by one, scuba dive in a pitch-dark cave, and face a deadly Russian assassin.
4.5/5 for Stormbreaker.
Alex Rider website: http://www.alexrider.com
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