When his guardian dies in suspicions circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down.
Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into the MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises; then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission. But Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last...Show moreShow less
Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into the MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises; then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission. But Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last... Show more Show less