Alex Rider
The Alex Rider book series is written by Anthony Horowitz, primarily for young adults.
The books are about the life of Alex Rider, a 14-year old orphan schoolboy working for MI6 (a youthful James Bond).
The five books are:
- Stormbreaker
- Point Blanc
- Skeleton Key
- Eagle Strike
- Scorpia
Plot Summaries
The missions Alex performs in the series are diverse.
In Stormbreaker, Alex's uncle, Ian Rider, dies mysteriously. Alex is then forcibly recruited into MI6 after learning that his uncle was an agent. In Alex's first mission, he stops a Lebanese loony from infecting all of the UK's schoolchildren with smallpox.
In Point Blanc he stops a South African scientist named Dr Hugo Grief from replacing the teenaged sons of influential people with clones of himself.
Skeleton Key sees him stopping a Chinese triad from sabotaging the Wimbledon tennis championships, and then stops insane Russian General Sarov from using a nuclear weapon to make Russia a communist state.
In Eagle Strike he stops Damian Cray, a pop singer and fanatical enviromentalist, from using the US nuclear armoury to destroy the world. At the end of that book he is told by the dying assassin Yassen Grogorovich that he must go to Venice.
Alex follows Grogorovich's dying wish in Scorpia, and ends up stopping a criminal organisation using radio waves to kill London's schoolchildren and sabotage the American-British Alliance.
Characters
- Alan Blunt, head of MI6
- Mrs Jones, of MI6
- Smithers, gadget expert at MI6
- Jack Starbright, Alex's caregiver
Characters unique to particular novels are listed below:
Stormbreaker
- Tulip Jones
- John Crawley
- Herod Sayle
- Nadia Vole
- Mr Grin
Point Blanc
- Michael J. Roscoe
- Sir David Friend
- Caroline
- Fiona
- Rufus
- Dr Hugo Grief
- Mrs Stellenbosh
- James Spritz
Scorpia
- Charlie Grey
- Tom Harris
- Jane Bedfordshire
- Mrs Rothman
- Max Grendel
- Levi Kroll
- Jerry Harris
- Nile
- Dr Liebermann
- Dr Karl Steiner
- Gordon Ross
- Sir Graham Adair
- Mr Kellner