![]() In the TV show, Alex is drugged at Point Blanc and passes out while brushing his teeth in his room at the school. It is in a fancy Parisian hotel that Alex is drugged, giving the baddies a chance to fiddle around with him while unconscious. The Point Blanc book gives Alex and Stellenbosch a stop-off in Paris on their way to Point Blanc. ![]() Alex’s uncle had already been killed, long before the second book begins, so the book contains no instance of Ian investigating Point Blanc before being killed. In the novels, it isn’t until the second book that Alex is sent to investigate Point Blanc, with the ominous school in the Alps giving book two its name. In the show, there’s the whole scene of social services and immigration showing up on their doorstep to illustrate the point. In the book, the threat is merely verbal. ![]() ![]() In both the Stormbreaker book and the Alex RiderTV show, the British secret service threatens to have Jack Starbright deported in order to motivate Alex into accepting the mission. In both versions, Alex heads there on his bike and ends up putting himself on MI6’s radar. In the Alex Rider TV show, he uses the much more modern Find My Phone service to track down the car. In the Stormbreaker book, Alex spots a shifty van and then uses a directory enquiries book to find a breaker’s yard that is housing his dead uncle’s car. In the TV version, although the subject of the investigation has changed and Ian isn’t in his car when he gets shot, it is still the expert assassin Yassen Gregorovich that pulls the trigger. However, in the show, we are given a few scenes of Ian and Alex living together and interacting before Ian gets murdered.ĭuring the Stormbreaker book, we learn that Ian Rider was shot and killed by Yassen Gregorovich as he tried to escape the Stormbreaker facility in his car – he was on the way to report his findings back to base. In the books, MI6 sends in Alex to investigate Stormbreaker in his uncle’s stead, giving the teenage spy his first mission.Īlso, it’s worth noting that the first book opens with Alex finding out that his uncle has died, and readers learn more about Ian Rider later (as Alex finds it all out). In the books, Alex’s uncle Ian is killed while investigating a millionaire’s computer project (the computer was named Stormbreaker, giving the first book its name). The new Alex Rider, Nightshade, came out in April 2020 and there is also a new book for this year's World Book Day – Undercoverand a collection of short stories Secret Weapon.Ĭheck out these Teachers Notes for KS2 and KS3! And if you've finished the series, check out our list of recommendations for books like Alex Rider.Let’s start things off with one of the biggest changes: the Alex RiderTV show has conflated together the first two books in the Anthony Horowitz novel series. Check out their five-star reviews for these exciting adventure stories, recommended for readers aged 9+. We love the Alex Rider books for their fast-paced action and nail-biting mysteries and Toppsta readers do too. Before he knows it, he is operating in a murky world of secret gadgets, weapons, terrorists and most of all danger. Stormbreaker, book 1 in the series, introduces us to 14-year-old Alex Rider, a normal teenager thrust into working for MI6 in the wake of his uncle’s suspicious death. It’s best to start at the beginning of the series to get the back story. The first season, based on Point Blanc (book 2), was released this year (2020), starring Otto Farrant as Alex Rider. Having been made into a film (Stormbreaker) in 2006, the boy spy is now gracing the small screen in the new Alex Rider TV series on Amazon Prime. ![]() Anthony Horowitz’s books have been described as “the not-so-secret weapon to get boys reading” thanks to the fast-paced plots, full of twists and cliff-hangers. Horowitz is a master of action and crime, writing for both adults and children, including new James Bond and Sherlock Holmes novels as well as numerous TV episodes and films. Written by bestselling British author Anthony Horowitz, the Alex Rider series has sold over 19 million copies worldwide and continues to thrill readers almost 20 years after its release. The explosive action series aimed at 9-12 year olds was first published in 2000 and there are now ten books in the series as well as a prequel Russian Roulette and various graphic novel editions. The world’s only teen spy, Alex Rider, is one of the most popular book characters for young readers. ![]()
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