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Stormbreaker
By Anthony Horowitz
Reviewed by Brianna Kemp

Imagine being awakened at three in the morning only to find out your uncle, your legal guardian, had been killed in a car crash. Then the next day seeing your uncle’s car with bullet holes in it and being recruited by MI6 (British Intelligence Agency) to finish your uncle, the so called accountant‘s, dangerous mission. Fourteen year old Alex Rider experiences all of this and more in Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. Stormbreaker is an outstanding, contemporary action-filled fiction book and Alex is basically the teenage version of James Bond. Stormbreaker follows Alex as he tries to solve the mystery of his uncle’s death and defeat the notorious Herod Sayle, an Egyptian computer genius who has made a bad impression on the British government and led them to believe he cannot be trusted, and Nadia Vole, his dreadful and determined German sidekick.
The author, Anthony Horowitz, does an impressive job throughout the book providing a momentous amount of details to describe the scenes, allowing you to create an image in your mind of what is happening. He is a prodigious writer and did a remarkable job on the book (now a New York Times best-seller). He does a profound job describing the ways of the bad guys and showing how they will stop at nothing, even killing a fourteen year old boy, to commit their crime. “The two cars that he had seen coming up the main drive had wheeled around to come up behind him. Each of them had a guard in the backseat, leaning out of the window, firing at him. . . The two cars had reached him, and for a horrible second he found himself sandwiched between them. . .he could see into the barrels of their machine guns“ (Horowitz 204). Horowitz has a very intriguing writing style because he catches the reader’s attention from the very first sentence while it may take other author‘s a few pages. “When the doorbell rings at three in the morning it’s never good news” (Horowitz 1) is the first sentence and it catches your eye and makes you wonder what kind of news someone could bring it couldn’t wait until later in the morning. Horowitz is very creative and keeps you wanting more and more.
Alex Rider, the main character and protagonist, is a 14 year old boy who unknowingly has been prepared by his uncle to follow in his footsteps to become a spy. “ ‘[Ian had been] Preparing Alex to replace him [as an agent]. Ever since the boy was old enough to walk, he’s been trained for intelligence work . . . But without knowing it“ (Horowitz 72). The head of Special Operations Mi6, Alan Blunt, said to his deputy, Ms. Jones trying to convince her to let a 14 year old boy work for them. “I mean, he’s lived abroad so he speaks French, German, and Spanish. He’s been mountain climbing, diving, and skiing. He’s learned karate . . . I think Rider wanted Alex to become a spy‘ “ (Horowitz 72). He has all of the capabilities of becoming a spy, but is too young; however, MI6 doesn’t believe so and recruit him to finish his uncle’s job and he is unwillingly forced to become an agent and investigate Sayle. Although Alex Rider is able of many things a fourteen year old boy wouldn’t be able to do and some of the situations he gets out of are unlikely to happen to anyone, Alex is a great role model.

Stormbreaker provides an admirable role model for kids and tells the story of a boy on a mission to figure out why whatever his uncle found out was so bad he had to be killed. It is an exciting book and keeps you wanting more and more.

Work(s) Cited
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. New York, New York: Penguin Group Inc. 2006.

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