Zach

1/12/09

6^th hour

STORMBREAKER 

      Stormbreaker the first book of the Alex Rider series was a very interesting book that included action, adventure, and definitely suspense. 

       The story takes place in Europe in present time; the plot is about a teenage boy who is unaware of his uncle who is a M16 spy until his uncle died in a “car crash”. Alex is very curious knowing his uncle is much more careful then a car accident decides he would expect the car, and sure enough he finds numerous bullet holes on the windshield. While Alex is at the junk yard he ran into a little trouble. 

      Alex then puts the puzzle pieces together and realizes that his uncle is a spy and he also found out just like he had predicted his uncle was killed by Yassen Gregorcavich. He is then contacted by what he thought was his uncles work colleagues asking him to participate in a top secret mission in order to bust so called villain Herod Sayle.  

      Herod Sayle worked and owned his company called sale enterprises which mostly focused toward technological ideas creating everything. They had just come up with there latest invention called the Stormbreaker. It was a high powered computer which was very interesting was able to do great things for education. M16 found the Strombreaker very suspicious see Herod Sayle was donating 1 to every student in Europe and would all be connected on line by the Prime Minister and then the students would be able to use them. So Alex Riders job is to go and find out what’s going on at Sayle enterprises while pretending to be a student who had just one a competition to meet Herod Sayle. He went as the boy and found out some very good information for M16. 

      From the book I really liked how they really had a lot of action and suspense throughout each chapter. Something I didn’t find as good in the book is the non realistic features adding were there’s a virus that can be put into a computer to kill people I didn’t find to realistic but other then that I really enjoyed the book.   I definitely recommend this book, you hear this frequently but I would have to say this is one of those books were you can’t set it down there is chapter after chapter of non stop action and it hooks you from cover to cover.