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Stormbreaker
And I should have just left it.
The first few pages were fine--I was all prepared to get sucked into this book . . . I mean, I'd seen it EVERYWHERE, after all. It had to be good, right? It happened with the Pendragon books, it'll happen here too, yeah?
And then everything after those pages was complete nonsense. I was immediately disenchanted. But before I go into large-scale issues, I'd like to mention that these are the paragraphs that immediately set me against this book:
"'We can't just send in another agent . . . He'll be expecting a replacement. Somehow we have to trick him."
"We have to send someone in who won't be noticed. Someone who can look around and report back without being seen. We were considering sending down a woman. She might be able to slip in as a cleaner or
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Anthony Horowitz
English novelist and screenwriter (born )
Anthony John HorowitzCBE (born 5 April ) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.
Horowitz's works for adults include: the play Mindgame (); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk () and Moriarty (); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders () and Moonflower Murders (); five novels featuring a fictionalised utgåva of han själv as a companion and chronicler to private utredare Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (), The Sentence fryst vatten Death (), A Line to Kill (), The Twist of a Knife (), and Close to Death ().
The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilis
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Stormbreaker
Book by Anthony Horowitz
This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Stormbreaker (disambiguation).
Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series. The book was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September , and in United States release on 21 May , where it became a New York Times Bestseller.[1] Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide,[2] been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in received a California Young Reader Medal.[3][4]
A film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in , which underperformed at the box office and earned lukewarm reception.
Plot summary
[edit]The protagonist, Alex Rider, after the suspicious death of his uncle, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6. He is sent undercover to Port Tallen, Cornwall. There he discovers the Sto