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) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider fourteen-year-old reluctant spy, to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is stuck in a remote boarding school high atop the Swiss Alps with the sons of the rich and powerful, and...
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) 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.
6) 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....
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) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture, this very first Alex Rider adventure, featuring manga-like illustrations, follows a fourteen-year-old boy, who, after the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, is coerced into continuing his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. Original.
15) 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.