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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