Secret Weapon (Alex Rider)

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The Man with Eleven Fingers starts with a rare glimpse into what Alex was like when his housekeeper – and later his closest friend – Jack Starbright first arrived in a house in Chelsea to help look after a truculent seven-year-old, then moves onto the case of Freddy ‘Fingers’, a man on trial for a massive case of embezzlement.

Anthony Horowitz announced in March 2016 that he will be publishing a collection of Alex Rider short stories.

The young spy is less traumatised, and there is a lighter tone to some of the stories, such as the delightfully entertaining Tea with Smithers, which provides some insights into the behind the scenes life of MI6’s gadget inventor, Q to Alex’s Bond. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. Then, several years later, his publishers suggested the idea of tidying up some short stories he’d written, published as bonus features and other extras, and Secret Weapon was the end result. And Alex’s concerns about some dubious chocolate bars lead to one of the few times he actually contacts Mrs Jones and Alan Blunt of MI6 of his own accord. An essential collection of seven explosive Alex Rider stories by number one bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz.

After the traumatic events of Scorpia Rising, it looked very much like Alex had finally been allowed to go back to the life of an ordinary boy, moving to the States to live with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her parents.If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. This collection of thrilling adventures features familiar and new assailants from the best-loved world of Alex Rider and also includes three never-before-seen stories. This book was good because I enjoyed finding out more about the character of Alex Rider and his determination to solve problems in a fearless way. I thought the book had a really good plot line, with the stories being set in lots of different places.

Alternatively, we suggest that you visit your local library and request to borrow a copy from a friendly librarian, if you cannot find the book on its shelves. In truth, I thought I must have run out of action sequences, secret gadgets and plots to destroy the world. There are half a dozen stories I’ve written over the years for newspapers and magazines, and they wanted to bring them together.Without telling you the ending, you will be surprised about how it ends and you will certainly want to read more books by this author! It wasn’t going to be enough for a whole book, so I’m writing the other half as a sort of novella to give it the paper-length it needs – and I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I am, but it’s actually going very well. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform, so if you choose to subscribe your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Well, it was when Walker Books asked me to polish some pre-published short stories that I realized I’d rather missed my reluctant teenaged spy.