Series
Summary
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. Full description
Summary: |
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. |
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Item Description: |
ESL kit (book + CDs) Sequel: Point Blank. "The first Alex Rider adventure"--Container. |
Physical Description: |
4 sound discs (ca. 4 hr., 37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (234 pages) |
Production Credits: |
Executive producer, Dan Zitt. |
ISBN: |
9780739335352 0739335359 9780739335901 0739335901 |
Author Notes: |
The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) |