


MI6 would like Alex to pose as a Felix Lester, a school boy who won a contest to test the Stormbreaker computer. Ian Rider’s last case was investigating multi-millionaire businessman Herod Sayles, who had recently announced that he was donating thousands of his new computer line Stormbreaker to London school children.

Later Alex is invited to his uncle’s bank where he learns that Ian Rider was a secret agent for MI6. In the first of many action sequences Alex narrowly escapes after the car is loaded into the car crusher with Alex inside. Alex becomes suspicious after learning his normally very careful uncle was not wearing a seatbelt and finds that his uncle’s office has been cleared out.Īlex finds his uncle’s car in a junkyard ridden with bullet holes and blood on the seats suggesting his uncle had been murdered. The novel opens following the death of 14-year-old Alex Rider’s guardian and uncle Ian in a car accident.
