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Suitable for 9 - 11 years

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The story of a spy. The story of an assassin. The story of two mortal enemies. A book we’d pretty much kill to read. Alex’s story starts here. Who is Yassen Gregorovich? An international contract killer has been given his orders. His next target is a fourteen-year-old spy: Alex Rider. Yassen knows Alex well. The two of them share a secret from the past. As he prepares for his next mission, Yassen remembers the forces that turned him from an ordinary schoolboy into a hired assassin. What is it that makes someone choose to do evil? What would it take to make them kill a child?

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Series

Alex Rider

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406353051

Lexile measure

770L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.4; Middle years plus; 15.0 points

Condition

New

UK edition

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Alex Rider Alex Rider

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

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Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

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  1. KhanM01
    on 19 May 2016

    good good googd soooo good

    5out of 5

  2. Spidergirl
    on 8 March 2014

    I enjoyed reading this

  3. bookaholic202
    on 7 March 2014

    This book was so sad but yet so gripping. It made me think about how nice Yassen was as a boy and how he became a killer.

  4. harrypottyN98
    on 14 December 2013

    I really want to read this it looks so cool and I love the rest of the Alex rider books.

  5. RavenclawDragonlord
    on 7 December 2013

    I loved how it told the story of Yassen Gregorovich as he grew up. It actuly made me feel sorry for him and see how alike him & Alex are. I would recommend this book to all Alex Rider fans.

    5out of 5

  6. alannastar
    on 30 August 2013

    His books are amazing this is the only one I haven’t read.

    5out of 5