Alex Rider: Secret Weapon

**b>Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!/b>;b>"Readers ages 8 to 15 with a taste for tough-guy thrills will gobble this one up."--/b>b>Wall Street Journal/b> b>International bestselling author Anthony Horowitz''s short story collection expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics. /b>/b>Inspired by Horowitz''s millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more! The #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider is back with more exciting, edge-of-your-seats adventures!Contains a combination of new and previously published material, together for the first time!b>Praise for /b>b>Never Say Die/b>b>:/b>"Once again amid races, chases, hails of bullets, and increasingly spectacular explosions, the teenage James Bond pulls off one awesome feat of derring-do after another. [This] fresh caper . . . roars along to a (naturally) explosive climax."b> --Booklist/b>

Auteur
Anthony Horowitz is perhaps the busiest writer in England. He has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. He writes in a comfortable shed in his garden for up to ten hours per day. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider ongoing series of books, he has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders, and Murder Most Horrid. He has written the television series Foyle's Wa*r, which aired in the United States, as well as the libretto of a Broadway musical adapted from Dr. Seuss's book, *The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. He penned the script for the film The Gathering, *which was released in 2003, starring Christina Ricci. Horowitz has also written the *Diamond Brothers series.

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A short story collection that expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics. Now in paperback!

Inspired by Horowitz's millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more! The #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider is back with more exciting, edge-of-your-seats adventures!

A great introduction to readers' favorite super-spy, Secret Weapon contains a combination of new and previously published material.

Series Overview: Fall 2017: Never Say Die

Summer 2019: Secret Weapon (an Alex Rider short story collection)

Spring 2020: Nightshade

Résumé
**Alex Rider is now a Freevee original series!

"Readers ages 8 to 15 with a taste for tough-guy thrills will gobble this one up."--Wall Street Journal

International bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's short story collection expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics.

Inspired by Horowitz's millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more! The #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider is back with more exciting, edge-of-your-seats adventures!

Contains a combination of new and previously published material, together for the first time!

Praise for Never Say Die:
"Once again amid races, chases, hails of bullets, and increasingly spectacular explosions, the teenage James Bond pulls off one awesome feat of derring-do after another. [This] fresh caper . . . roars along to a (naturally) explosive climax." --Booklist

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JACK STARBRIGHT WAS MAKING breakfast, carefully cutting the toast into fingers before arranging them around the edge of the plate, leaving room for Alex’s egg, which was still bubbling away in a pan. She glanced at her watch. There was no sign of Alex, although it was already eight and they had to be out of the house by eight thirty.

She walked over to the door and called up the stairs.

“Alex!”

“I’ll be one minute, Jack!” The familiar voice came from the bedroom on the second floor.

Jack smiled and went back into the kitchen. As shelifted the egg out of the boiling water, she asked herself—for the thousandth time—how she had managed to getinto this situation. And what would anybody think, looking at her? She was fast approaching her thirties. ThisChristmas, she would be twenty-nine. When she had firstcome to London, she had been a law student, helping outin a house in Chelsea to support herself. Now, seven yearslater, she was still living there, sharing the place with a fourteen-year-old boy. It was an unusual arrangement, to say the least.

When Jack first met him, Alex had been seven, a little boy with messy fair hair, brown eyes, and plenty of attitude. He had come into the room with his hands inhis pockets, his shirt out of his trousers, and one shoelace trailing, and she’d had no idea that he was going to completely change her life.

“This is Alex,” Ian Rider had said. “Alex, this is Jack.”

Alex had stared at her. “Jack’s a man’s name.”

Those were the first words he had ever spoken to her.

“Well, it’s my name and you’d better get used to it,”Jack had replied.

They had become friends almost immediately.

Jack had been in London to study law. She had a place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, one of thebest colleges in London—but what she didn’t have was money. She had answered an advertisement in the Times.

Room in Chelsea available plus living expenses in returnfor some housekeeping duties and childcare. Would suit a studentor part-time professional. Telephone:

The advertisement had been placed by Ian Rider,Alex’s uncle, who had introduced himself as a banker working in the city. She could still see him now, a darkly handsome man dressed in an expensive suit, sitting with his legs crossed and a glass of red wine in his hand.

*“Let me explain, Miss Starbright. Alex’s parents died when he was young, and I’ve looked after him pretty much since he was born. Alex’s father was in banking . . .the same as me. The trouble is, I’m having to do more and more travel these days—Zurich, Luxembourg, Singapore.That’s the joy of international finance! I don’t want Alex to have a nanny or anything like that. I try to spend as much time as I can with him when I’m home. What I really want is for someone to live here part-time and to become a sort of friend to him so he won’t notice it so much when I’m away. You’ll find that Alex is very good at looking after himself. He goes to school just down the road, and I’m sure the two of you will get along well.You’re much closer to his age than I am, and he’s a very easygoing kid. What do you say?”

*How could she possibly have known that almost everything Ian Rider had told her was untrue? He wasn’t in banking. He was a spy. Alex’s father had been a spy too. Both of Alex’s parents had been killed by a bomb planted on a plane, and Alex would have died with them but for the chance of an ear infection that had forced him to stay at home. Sometimes Jack hated Ian Rider for the way he had dec…