Alex Rider 10 Books Collection Box Set by Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider 10 Books Collection Box Set by Anthony Horowitz brings together ten adventures from the bestselling series, following fourteen-year-old Alex Rider as he is drawn into dangerous missions connected to MI6 and other security services. Across the collection, Alex is repeatedly forced to go undercover, pursue attackers, and uncover hidden plots that take him from Britain to Europe, Cuba, Australia, South-East Asia, North Africa and Cairo.

The set includes stories that explore Alex’s earliest recruitment and training, investigations that lead him into exclusive institutions and criminal organisations, and missions involving international assassins, secret services and high-stakes threats. Source text also contains unrelated copy referencing Skulduggery Pleasant; this has been omitted as it does not relate to the Alex Rider collection.

Included titles

• Russian Roulette
• Scorpia Rising
• Crocodile Tears
• Snakehead
• Ark Angel
• Scorpia
• Eagle Strike
• Skeleton Key
• Point Blanc
• Stormbreaker

Key details

• Ten-book collection from the Alex Rider series
• Written by Anthony Horowitz
• Includes Russian Roulette through to Scorpia Rising, plus earlier missions including Stormbreaker
• Described in the source as a complete set for the first time

Synopses

Russian Roulette

An international contract killer, Yassen Gregorovich, is ordered to target fourteen-year-old spy Alex Rider. As he prepares for the mission, he reflects on the events that changed him from an ordinary schoolboy into a hired assassin, and the choices that lead someone towards evil.

Scorpia Rising

Alex’s final mission brings together old enemies in a plot designed to frame him. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo’s city of the dead, he faces a revenge plan described as the most deadly yet, with revelations about Smithers’ ultimate gadget and the shock death of a major character.

Crocodile Tears

With a hitman after him and the media threatening to expose his past, Alex turns to MI6, who demand a new assignment in return. Sent to investigate a GM crop plant, he encounters charity organiser Desmond McCain and is later kidnapped to Africa, where he discovers a plan to create a disaster that could kill millions and devastate an East African country.

Snakehead

After splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex works undercover for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service. His mission takes him into the criminal underworld of South-East Asia, where he faces an old enemy and finds himself caught between two secret services with no one to trust.

Ark Angel

Having travelled from Cornwall to Cuba, Venice to France on missions for MI6, Alex is drawn into another dangerous assignment. Following his encounter with the criminal organisation Scorpia, this sequel asks whether he will survive to fight another day.

Scorpia

Still shaken by a discovery about his father, Alex travels to Italy and infiltrates the world of Claudia Rothman, a society hostess linked to the criminal organisation Scorpia. He is told his father was murdered by MI6 in an operation masterminded by Mrs Jones, forcing Alex to choose between continuing with British security services or joining Scorpia for revenge.

Eagle Strike

While in the south of France, Alex is caught up in a ruthless attack that pulls him back into violence and mystery, even as MI6 refuse involvement. Determined to find those responsible, he follows a trail towards a long-buried secret and a terrible discovery.

Skeleton Key

Alex is recruited again for what begins as routine reconnaissance at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Events escalate from Chinese Triad gangs in London to an undercover mission in Cuba, where he uncovers links between suspicious deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and General Sarov’s plans for the future.

Point Blanc

Two “accidental” deaths lead investigators to a single connection: both men had sons at Point Blanc Academy, an exclusive school in the French Alps run by Dr Grief. Using false identification and disguised gadgets, Alex infiltrates the academy as a pupil to uncover what is really happening.

Stormbreaker

After his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6 and put through SAS training exercises. Equipped with secret gadgets, he is sent to Cornwall to investigate Herod Sayle, who is producing Stormbreaker computers and offering one to every school, with motives that are not what they seem.

Titles in This Set:

1. Russian Roulette
2. Scorpia Rising
3. Crocodile Tears
4. Snakehead
5. Ark Angel
6. Scorpia
7. Eagle Strike
8. Skeleton Key
9. Point Blanc
10. Stormbreaker