A great many of the details in this book are therefore based on fact but it’s fair to say that the overall picture may not be entirely accurate. So much changed between 1995 and 2000 – the approximate setting for the story – that I’ve been forced to use a certain amount of dramatic licence.

  My assistant Olivia Zampi organized everything right up to the photocopying and binding. I owe a very special debt of thanks to my son Cassian, who was the first to read the manuscript and who made some enormously helpful criticisms, and to both Sarah Handley at Walker Books and Harry F at HMP Ashfield who both suggested the title. I am, as ever, grateful to Jane Winterbotham, my squeamish but incisive editor at Walker Books. Finally, my wife – Jill Green – lived through the writing of this without hiring a contract killer to have me eliminated. She must have been tempted.

  Collect all the Alex Rider books:

  STORMBREAKER

  Alex Rider – you’re never too young to die…

  POINT BLANC

  High in the Alps, death waits for Alex Rider…

  SKELETON KEY

  Sharks. Assassins. Nuclear bombs. Alex Rider’s in deep water.

  EAGLE STRIKE

  Alex Rider has 90 minutes to save the world.

  SCORPIA

  Once stung, twice as deadly. Alex Rider wants revenge.

  ARK ANGEL

  He’s back – and this time there are no limits.

  SNAKEHEAD

  Alex Rider bites back…

  CROCODILE TEARS

  Alex Rider – in the jaws of death…

  SCORPIA RISING

  One bullet. One life.

  The end starts here.

  The Alex Rider graphic novels:

  www.alexrider.com

  www.facebook.com/alexrideruk

  www.youtube.com/alexriderinsider

  WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF

  ANTHONY HOROWITZ

  BOOK ONE

  He always knew he was different.

  First there were the dreams.

  Then the deaths began.

  BOOK TWO

  It began with Raven’s Gate.

  But it’s not over yet.

  Once again the enemy is stirring.

  BOOK THREE

  Darkness covers the earth.

  The Old Ones have returned.

  The battle must begin.

  BOOK FOUR

  An ancient evil is unleashed.

  Five have the power to defeat it.

  But one of them has been taken.

  BOOK FIVE

  Five Gatekeepers.

  One chance to save mankind.

  Chaos beckons. Oblivion awaits.

  OTHER BOOKS BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ

  London is dirty, distant and dangerous … but that’s where orphan Tom Falconer is heading. And he’s got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels.

  Tom is helpless and alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse, a thirteen-year-old pickpocket. Together the two of them find themselves chased across the city by the murderous Ratsey. But it’s only on the first night of a new play – The Devil and his Boy – that Tom realizes the fate of the Queen and indeed the entire country rests in his hands.

  He could see it in the wicked glimmer in her eyes, in the half-turned corner of her mouth. And it was so strong, so horrible that he shivered. She was evil.

  “Wickedly funny.”

  Daily Telegraph

  “A hoot… Anthony Horowitz has created a scary and unmissable old hag.”

  Daily Mail

  Be careful what you wish for…

  Tad Spencer has everything a boy could want – incredibly rich parents, and a whole summer ahead to enjoy however he pleases. Until one evening he makes the huge mistake of wishing he was someone else.

  THE DIAMOND BROTHERS SERIES

  Meet Tim Diamond, the world’s worst private detective, and his quick-thinking wisecracking younger brother Nick!

  “His first job was to find some rich lady’s pedigree Siamese cat. He managed to run it over on the way to see her. The second job was a divorce case – which you may think is run-of-the-mill until I tell you that the clients were perfectly happily married until he came along… There hadn’t been a third case.”

  Collect all 4 hilarious Diamond Brothers investigations!

  Titles by Anthony Horowitz

  The Alex Rider series:

  Stormbreaker

  Point Blanc

  Skeleton Key

  Eagle Strike

  Scorpia

  Ark Angel

  Snakehead

  Crocodile Tears

  Scorpia Rising

  The Power of Five (Book One): Raven’s Gate

  The Power of Five (Book Two): Evil Star

  The Power of Five (Book Three): Nightrise

  The Power of Five (Book Four): Necropolis

  The Power of Five (Book Five): Oblivion

  The Devil and His Boy

  Granny

  Groosham Grange

  Return to Groosham Grange

  The Switch

  More Bloody Horowitz

  The Diamond Brothers books:

  The Falcon’s Malteser

  Public Enemy Number Two

  South by South East

  Four of Diamonds

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. All statements, activities, stunts, descriptions, information and material of any other kind contained herein are included for entertainment purposes only and should not be relied on for accuracy or replicated as they may result in injury.

  First published 2013 by Walker Books Ltd

  87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ

  Text © 2013 Stormbreaker Productions Ltd Cover design by Walker Books Ltd

  Trademarks Alex Rider™; Boy with Torch Logo™ © 2013 Stormbreaker Productions Ltd

  The right of Anthony Horowitz to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:

  a catalogue record for this book

  is available from the British Library

  ISBN 978-1-4063-5085-2 (ePub)

  www.walker.co.uk

 


 

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