Alex Rider 11-Book Box Set by Anthony Horowitz |Action-Packed Children's Adventure Series with Mystery,Thrillers & Suspense for Young Readers & Kids

Titles in this set:

Russian Roulette

Scorpia Rising

Crocodile Tears

Snakehead

Ark Angel

Scorpia

Eagle Strike

Skeleton Key

Point Blanc

Stormbreaker

 

An international contract killer has been given his orders. His next target is a fourteen-year-old spy, Alex Rider. The man's name is Yassen Gregorovich. He knows Alex well. The two of them share a secret from the past. As he considers his next mission, Yassen remembers the forces that turned him from an ordinary schoolboy into a hired assassin. What is it that makes someone choose to do evil? What would it take to make them kill? This thrilling adventure will be the deadliest yet...

 

This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smither's ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.

 

Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turn to M16. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. Forced to ask M16 for protection, Alex finds himself being manipulated in a deadly game that could lead to the destruction of an entire East African country.

 

Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover, this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service on a mission to infiltrate the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one to trust and this time he needs all his wits to survive.

 

From Cornwall to Cuba, Venice to France, Alex Rider has travelled far and wide as a spy for M16, facing danger and death at every turn. But in his last mission, fighting the criminal organisation, Scorpia, Alex appeared to have finally met his match. In the thrilling sequel to 'Scorpia', find out the answer to the question on everyone's lips - 'Will Alex Rider live to fight another day?'

 

Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage M16 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous world of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and member of the international criminal organisation, Scorpia. She reveals that Alex's father was murdered by M16, in an operation masterminded by Head of Special Operations, Mrs Jones. Shocked and angry, Alex faces a choice: to continue to work with the British security services, or to become an agent for Scorpia - and get revenge.

 

Reluctant M16 agent Alex Rider is relaxing in the South of France until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, M16 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret - and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined.

 

Teenage superspy Alex Rider is enlisted by the national security services again - this time for a routine reconnaissance mission at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. But before long, alex finds himself caught up in a terrible chain of events that leads from the Chinese Triad gangs in London to an undercover assignment in Cuba. Alex begins to make chilling links between suspicious deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and the plans of his host, Russian General Sarov, for the future of the world.

 

Investigations into the 'accidental' deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy - an exclusive school for rebellious rich kids, run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high on an isolated mountain peak in the French Alps. Armed only with a false ID and a new collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening there.

 

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into M16, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers. Sayle has offered to give one free to every school in the country - but there's more to the gift than meets the eye.