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Bellingham Memorial Middle School Media Center |
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When
his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex
Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into 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
to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is
producing his state-of-the-art Stormbreaker com-puters. Sayle has offered
to give one free to every school in the country - but there's more to the
gift than meets the eye.
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Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two
of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a
son attending Point Blanc Academy - an exclusive school for rebellious
rich kids, run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high on an isolated
mountain peak in the French Alps. Armed only with a false ID and a new
collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the
academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening
there.
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Teenage superspy Alex Rider is enlisted by the national security services
again - this time for a routine reconnaissance mission at the Wimbledon
Tennis Championships. But before long, Alex finds himself caught up in a
terrifying chain of events that leads from the Chinese Triad gangs in
London to an undercover assignment in Cuba. Alex begins to make chilling
links between suspicious deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and the
plans of his host, Russian General Sarov, for the future of the world...
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Reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is relaxing in the south of France until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, MI6 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret - and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined. |
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Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous world of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and member of the international criminal organization, Scorpia. She reveals that Alex's father was murdered by MI6, in an operation masterminded by Head of Special Operations, Mrs Jones. Shocked and angry, Alex faces a choice: to continue to work with the British security services, or to become an agent for Scorpia and get revenge. |
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No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he's working for ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his target is the criminal underworld of South East-Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by the shadows of his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one he can trust - and this time he needs all his wits to survive... |