During his stay, Alex follows clues left by his uncle and learns the truth: Sayle is loading the computers with a deadly biological virus. Herod Sayle acts like he just read Super Villainy for Dummies, his butler Mr. There's not much time before Stormbreaker is released, so Alex is hurried through a two-week boot camp, given some handy spy gadgets, and shipped off to Sayle Enterprises. So here's the plan: Alex will impersonate a contest winner who's won a trip to Sayle Enterprises in order to get to the bottom of things. Ian's death (at the hands of Yassen Gregorovich, famed assassin) only confirms their fears. Sayle has promised to donate one Stormbreaker to every school in England, but MI6 has been suspicious about Sayle for some time. Whoa, right? But what's even more bananas is that they need Alex's help.Īt the time of his death, Ian was trailing Herod Sayle, a tech mogul set to release a revolutionary new computer called the Stormbreaker. Blunt reveals the truth to Alex: Ian (and everyone at the 'bank,' for that matter) works for the British spy agency, MI6. He visits the bank the next day and tries to sneak into Ian's office, but he's caught by Mr.

Alex only gets more suspicious after he meets his uncle's bank coworkers, who all seem like they have something to hide.Īlex's suspicions lead him to a creepy junkyard, where he finds his uncle's car, and it doesn't look like it's been in an accident-it looks like it was shot up with bullets.

Alex is devastated by the news and worried about his future, but he has questions about the official story-nothing seems to add up. Meet Alex Rider, an average British teenager whose life is about to seriously change.Įverything starts when Alex's uncle and caretaker, Ian Rider, is killed in a car accident.

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz