Alex crashes through the roof of the London Science Museum just as the ceremony is about to take place and fires his gun at the Stormbreaker computer to destroy it. His short flight across the junkyard ended with abone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the caron the iron shelves of the crusher.

As he starts the jeep, several other jeeps start to pursue him as the cargo plane starts to take off. Through some fancy driving and good fortune, Alex manages to cause the destruction of the hostile jeeps.Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry. As MI6 controls the trust, if Alex does not co-operate, Jack (whose visa expired seven years earlier) will be deported back to America after prosecution, his house will be sold and he will leave his school and friends for an academy until he is of age. In 2006 a film adaptation of Stormbreaker was released to theatres starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider with Geoffrey Sax directing. Combining both fantasy and horror, it was to set-up ‘The Power of Five’ series creating an overall arc and tone for the books. Although likening it to both the Harry Potter and James Bond series, reviewer Ray Bennett said the film "lacks any kind of suspense" due to the script.

That’s when he realizes there’s more to things than initially meets the eye, as he discovers a plot set-up by the people he’s now entrusted with. Not knowing where to turn he has to decipher the clues left to him by his uncle and prevent a catastrophe from taking place.Alex tugged the book toward him andlooked at the entry underneath the one the secretaryhad chosen: J. Unbeknownst to Alex and his housekeeper, Jack Starbright, Ian's position as a "banker" was actually a cover for his role as an MI6 agent. Alex is then sent to a military training camp in the Brecon Beacons, the home of the British Special Air Service. The worst bully was none other than the future Prime Minister, leading him to despise English children, as well as the whole of the UK in general. HEAVEN FOR CARSW I T H H A M M E R S M I T H B R I D G E just ahead of him,Alex left the river and swung his bike through thelights and down the hill toward Brookland School.

As for Vole, she was directly in front of the tank when it burst, releasing the immense jellyfish and causing it to land right on her, killing her painfully. The yo-yo attached to Alex’s belt spun, trailing outthirty yards of specially designed advanced nyloncord. Alex agrees, and is given two weeks of rigorous training and some gadgets to help him in his mission.

A similar idea was used in the "Stormbreaker" movie too, but Alex had to exit the goal through a chimney, rather than through the sewer. In a 2007 interview for Reuters, Horowitz blamed Stormbreaker 's financial failings on The Weinstein Company's handling of the film's distribution on the American market, particularly their decision to not give it a wide release. The stairs led down into a tall galleried roomwith a rug spread out over flagstones and a fireplacebig enough to park a car in.

The Weinstein Company acquired the North American rights to the film, which was filmed in Summer 2005 with six weeks on the Isle of Man and a further six weeks in London. The critical consensus states " Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is strictly children's fare, as it lacks originality, excitement, and believabiltity [ sic]. In addition to the Nintendo marketing in the film, Alex's cell phone is a Nokia 7710 and uses a sodium pentothal pen to get to London, not a gun. The film stars Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, and also stars Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Silverstone, Sarah Bolger, Stephen Fry and Ewan McGregor. A lawyer who knew noth-ing about any will but seemed to have been chargedwith organizing the funeral.Stormbreaker (also known as Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker and Alex Rider: Stormbreaker) is a 2006 action spy film directed by Geoffrey Sax. While everyone else streamed out, hemade his way to the secretary’s office and borroweda copy of the Yellow Pages.