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Anthony Horowitz
1) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Language
English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
They told him his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windsheild confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for...
2) Raven's Gate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
As punishment for a crime he didn't really commit, Matt was given a choice: Go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. A strange and sinister plan is coming together in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear... or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven's Gate - a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined...
3) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
4) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
5) Skeleton Key
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Working as a secret agent for Britain's most exclusive agency, Alex Rider thinks he's seen it all. He's been shot at by international terrorists, stood face-to-face with pure evil, and saved the world - twice. All before his fifteenth birthday....
6) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
7) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
8) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
10) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
2006, c2003
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
11) Crocodile tears
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
All Alex wants is a normal life, but the MI6 draws him back into the spy life, convincing him to spy on a charity organizer at a GM crop plant.
12) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
13) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
14) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
15) Necropolis
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
16) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
17) Oblivion
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world