Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Background Information
The books before this one are Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, and Eagle Strike. if the titles didn't give it away already, the genre is spy/mystery. Alex Rider is the protagonist. He is a 14 year-old from England, and was very young when his parents died. So he lived with his uncle, Ian Rider, in London with his 20 year-old house keeper, Jack Starbright (Yes, Jack is a girl) until his uncle died in a "car crash". Thus begins Stormbreaker. Alex finds out that his uncle was in no car crash but rather killed by a contract killer named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex finds out that the "bank" his uncle worked for is actually the MI-6. The MI-6 is the British equivilant of the CIA. His uncle was on to something but was killed before he could tell MI-6. I won't go into greater detail to save time and incase anyone wants to read the books, but it's up to Alex to save the world and take the place of his uncle. Each book is a separate mission to save the world. In the last book I read, Yassen appears again. Yassen isn't exactly a villian or a hero. He's just a contract killer who's doing his job. He seems to take a liking to Alex, and at the end of the book we find out why. Yassen and Alex's father worked together before he died. As Yassen takes his final breaths he tells alex to find Scorpia and he will find the truth about his father. If I need to explain anything else I will put it in along with my posts so you can understand. Enjoy.
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Yes! What an excellent series! I think a new one came out recently called Crocodile Tears. I haven't read it yet, but want to. They even made a movie of the first one, Stormbreaker. I think you can find it on Netflix and it's on TV every so often.
ReplyDeleteYes, you're right. I've seen crocodile tears and I'm sad it doesn't have the traditional cover like the rest of the books. i've also seen the Stormbreaker movie too but it's terrible.
ReplyDeleteFrom what is he saving the world?
ReplyDeleteIn each book there is different terroristical threat on the world that only Alex can help out on. Some missions he goes on his own without the MI-6 involving themselves. In the first book he saves the world from a virus that will kill all school children. The second he is saving the world from a mad scientist who is trying to control the wealthiest and most powerful people on earth. The third its a nuclear bomb. And in the forth its nuclear bombs.
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