It was the only room thatwas always locked—Alex had only been in there threeor four times, and never on his own. It was almost impossible toimagine that he would never again see the man, hearhis laughter, or twist his arm to get help with his sci-ence homework. Anthony has been the patron to the East Anglia Children Hospices and Kidscape, an anti-bullying charity since 2008. The operator—sitting in a glass cabin at oneend of the crusher—pressed a button and there wasa great belch of black smoke.

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Alex watched as a craneswooped down on one of the cars, seized it in a metal-lic grip, and dropped it into a crusher. His short flight across the junkyard ended with abone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the caron the iron shelves of the crusher. And then something hit the BMW with such forcethat Alex cried out, his whole body caught in a mas-sive shock wave that tore him away from the steeringwheel and threw him helplessly into the back.

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He squatted on the pole,then threw himself sideways and across to the ledgeoutside Ian Rider’s office. But the claw of the crane had already flat-tened the roof, pinning his left leg, perhaps evenbreaking it. With no choice, Alex reluctantly agrees, and they put him through eleven days of a gruelling SAS training programme at the country estate, before deploying him to Herod Sayle's base in Cornwall, using the alias of another boy, Felix Lester, who won a competition to visit the plant and be the first child to use a Stormbreaker.The flash of the machine gun, the bullets ripping intothe car, Ian Rider jerking in the driver’s seat . How could he possiblythink about algebra when there were so many otherquestions churning through his mind? Summary: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle’s dangerous work for Britian’s intelligence agency, MI6. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. The first line of the novel ("When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.

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Alex crashes through the roof of the Science Museum and dangles from his parachute which had gotten caught on a beam. Alex killed a couple of hoursknocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snookertable—and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caughthim at it. In the first book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series, fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. Helooked around, hoping to find Jack, but saw insteadthat Blunt was making his way toward him, steppingcarefully around the grave.Atleast the wreckage would tell him that the accidenthad really happened, that Ian Rider had really diedthat way. Grin, a henchman whose name derives from his time as a circus performer, catching knives with his teeth. British author Anthony Horowitz’s young adult novel Stormbreaker follows the adventures of a British teenager as he tries to stop a deranged millionaire from inflicting a biological virus on English schoolchildren through computers. His face, twisted into ahostile frown, was curiously ugly: greasy hair, wateryeyes, pale, lifeless skin. Suddenly, Yassen arrives unexpectedly in a helicopter and kills Sayle (in the same manner he did Ian) before rescuing Alex and Sabina.