![]() Grin, who is piloting the plane, to fly to London at gunpoint.Īs they approach the city, Alex realizes that he does not have time to land since the ceremony will be taking place very soon. Realizing that Sayle has already left in his private helicopter to go to the activation ceremony in London, Alex hijacks a jeep on the tarmac and uses a harpoon gun and his yo-yo grappling hook to lift himself up onto a departing cargo plane. Nadia is instantly killed when the giant jellyfish flies out of the tank and lands on her. Alex uses his acne cream to dissolve the tank’s metal support girders, causing the tank to break open and gallons of water to flood the room. After Sayle leaves the room, Nadia Vole helps Alex escape, telling him that she is a spy who worked with his uncle, only to release a trapdoor causing him to fall into the giant jellyfish tank. He plans to use the Stormbreaker computers to transport a deadly smallpox virus into every school in the country, which will be unleashed when he activates the computers in the ceremony at the London Science Museum. When Alex regains consciousness, Sayle explains that he was bullied in English schools when he was younger, particularly by a former classmate who is now the Prime Minister, and has harbored a deep hatred of English schoolchildren ever since. Before Alex can investigate further, he is discovered by Sayle and tranquilized. Alex follows his uncle’s map into a local mine, where he discovers a secret Stormbreaker production facility where the computers are assembled and filled with a strange fluid. He also learns that Ian had checked out several books from the library on viruses and wonders whether he may have been investigating computer viruses. He goes to the library to do some research, and comes across a map in a book that looks exactly like the diagram he found. ![]() Staying in the same room where his uncle stayed, Alex finds a strange diagram that Ian drew in the canopy of his bed. When one accidentally drops a case, he is shot by Gregorovich. Alex notices workers unloading metal cases from a submarine. Grin who used to be a circus performer, and an icy German assistant named Nadia Vole. Alex also meets his two servants, a disfigured man named Mr. Sayle gives Alex a tour of his mansion, which includes a giant aquarium containing a poisonous Man of War jellyfish. Alex gains access to Sayle Enterprises by impersonating Felix Lester, a boy who had won a contest to visit the plant and be the first to use a Stormbreaker computer. ![]() The gadgets include a grappling hook disguised as a yo-yo, acne cream that can dissolve metal, and a Nintendo Gameboy that drops smoke grenades among many other functions. Alex agrees, and is given two weeks of rigorous training and some gadgets to help him in his mission. ![]() The MI6 agents blackmail Alex by threatening to deport Jack back to America, sell his house, and send him away to a boarding school unless he helps them investigate Sayle. However, Ian had warned MI6 to keep the Stormbreakers from leaving the manufacturing plant and was killed by Yassen Gregorovich, an assassin working for Sayle, before he could explain further. Sayle has pledged to give a free Stormbreaker to every school in England and to activate them in a grand ceremony in the London Science Museum, presumably as a gift of gratitude to his adoptive country. The case focuses on wealthy Lebanese businessman Herod Sayle who has developed a new computer called the Stormbreaker. They tell Alex that his uncle was working on a case called “Stormbreaker” when he died. The two agents, Alan Blunt and Tulip Jones, explain that Ian actually worked for MI6 and that the banker job was only a cover. He investigates further by going to Royal & General, the bank where his uncle supposedly worked, only to be ambushed by two agents from MI6, the British intelligence agency. He visits his uncle’s car in the wrecking yard and becomes suspicious when he sees that it is riddled with bullets. At the funeral, he sees strange men carrying guns. ![]() One day, Alex receives the news that Ian was killed in a car accident. Alex Rider is a fourteen-year-old English schoolboy who lives with his uncle and adoptive father, Ian Rider, and his American housekeeper, Jack Starbright. In 2006, it was adapted into a motion picture of the same name directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, and Ewan McGregor. It was included in the New York Times Best Seller list and won a California Young Reader Medal in 2005. The first book in Horowitz’s Alex Rider series, it was published in the United Kingdom in 2000 and in the United States in 2001. 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. ![]()
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