Meet Alex Rider, the reluctant teenage spy. When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down.Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into M16 and armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, Alex is off on his first mission. Multi-billionaire Herod Sayle has offered to give a free Stormbreaker computer to every school in the country - but M16 think that there is more to the gift than meets the eye. Only Alex can find out the truth. But time is running out and Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last...