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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Stormbreaker

By: Anthony Horowitz
*****

The book "stormbreaker" is about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider. The book starts out when his uncle, Ian Rider get's murdered in a car accident. Ian Rider is Alex's only family relative left . His parents had died in a plane crash.  Alex thinks that Ian Rider works for a bank called Royal & General. On the day of the funeral some people from Royal & General come to Alex and tell him that his uncle wasn't a banker for Royal & General and the bank doesn't even exist. Ian Rider was actually a spy who was working for an agency called M16. The Royal & General Bank is a cover up name for M16. 

M16 wanted to recruit Alex, but he refuses.  In the end Alex accepts because he doesn't have a choice. They had to bribe Alex. His first mission is when they send him to infiltrate Sayle Enterprises. This actually a company that manufactures these computers called "Stormbreakers." The head of the project is a rich man named Herod Sayle. Herod Sayle wants to donate the Stormbreaker Computers for all the schools in London. Everybody thinks he's a her, but M16 are a little suspicious. That's why they want Alex to get to know Herod Sayle and see what he's up to.

In the end he finds out that Herod Sayle wants to spread out a computer virus so all the computers in London will have the computer virus.  Alex tries to stop but an unknown man named Yassen Gregorovich murders Herod Sayle and rescues Alex. Alex finds out that this man murdered his uncle Ian Rider... 

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