The Levi’s 501 of spydom. Imitators? Fail. Teen spy Alex Rider is the original and best of his kind. So find out where he started. This is the story of a spy. The story of an assassin. The story of two mortal enemies. The book that gives you the background to Alex’s world-beating series. Who is Yassen Gregorovich? A contract killer whose next target is a fourteen-year-old spy. Yassen knows Alex Rider well. The two of them share a secret from the past. But what turned Yassen from a normal schoolboy into a hired hitman? One who is prepared to kill a child?

Product Details

Series

Alex Rider (book 10)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406360288

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

April 2nd, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.4; Middle years plus; 15.0 points

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Alex Rider Pack x 11

eur prices

Price: €53.20

gbp prices

Offer price: £40.00

RRP: £87.89

Series

Alex Rider

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..