After two weeks, Alex is sent to Sayle Enterprises to begin his assignment. These men resent having a child there and treat Alex poorly, but he proves himself by keeping up with them. For the following few weeks, Alex is put through training with other men who are joining MI6 or the Special Air Service. If Alex refuses to help, they will sell his house, send Jack back to America, and place Alex in an orphanage. Alex refuses.īlunt tells Alex that the bank controls his inheritance. Blunt then tells Alex that they would like him to finish what Ian started by going into the company pretending to be a young man who won a contest to try out the computers. Ian was working on a case involving a business tycoon who recently announced the donation of thousands of computers to English school children. They tell Alex that his uncle worked for a special division of MI6. When Alex wakes, he finds himself inside a house at a training facility. Alex is caught and knocked unconscious with a dart. While waiting for the executive scheduled to speak to him, Alex sneaks into his uncle's office. Alex just barely escapes death.Ī few days later, Alex is called to the bank to talk about his uncle's will. A moment later the car is lifted and put into a crusher. Alex is about to leave when he hears people coming, so he jumps into the car. However, there are bullet holes all along the driver's side door. The car is there, but it was not damaged in a car wreck.
Alex goes to the salvage yard where he believes his uncle's car was taken. This leads Alex to wonder if his uncle was really just a bank official.Īlex begins looking into his uncle's death, beginning with the accident itself. When Alex and Jack return home from the funeral, they find that the office Ian always kept locked is now open and completely empty. At the funeral, Alex sees the head of the bank, a cold man called Blunt. The funeral is planned and executed by a man from the bank where Ian was an executive. Ian has been Alex's guardian since the death of his parents when he was an infant therefore, his death leaves Alex without a relative to care for him. The housekeeper, Alex's good friend Jack Starbright, opens the door to learn that Alex's uncle, Ian Rider, has been killed in a car accident. Stormbreaker is an exciting, suspenseful novel that jumpstarts the career of a highly unusual spy.Īlex Rider wakes in the middle of the night to hear the police knocking on the door. Alex is blackmailed into finishing his uncle's case, a case that could lead to Alex's own murder. This leads to a meeting with Uncle Ian's employers who tell Alex his uncle was a spy for a special division of the MI6. Convinced he never really knew his uncle, Alex continues to try to find out why someone would kill him. However, after doing some investigating on his own, Alex discovers his uncle was actually murdered. In this novel, Alex's uncle dies in what he is told is a car accident. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz is the first novel to feature teenage spy, Alex Rider.
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