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Alex Rider · Book 1

Stormbreaker

by Anthony Horowitz
Published
4 September 2000
Pages
234
ISBN-13
9781406364842
Type
novel
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About this book

Stormbreaker is the novel that opens Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, published in September 2000. It's followed here by Point Blanc. It's the natural place to begin the series, which has continued since 2000.

Key facts about Stormbreaker

Stormbreaker is a novel by Anthony Horowitz. Readers have had it since 4 September 2000. It runs to 234 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Stormbreaker. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781406364842 to find the main one.

Stormbreaker is book 1 of 14 in the Alex Rider series. The series has 14 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Nightshade Revenge is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 January 2024.

Additionally, Anthony Horowitz writes The Diamond Brothers, Groosham Grange and The Power of Five, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our mystery, middle-grade fantasy and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, A Deadly Episode is the latest published Anthony Horowitz book on file, from 23 April 2026.

About Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is a British author and screenwriter known for an unusually wide range spanning children's spy fiction, literary crime pastiche, and prestige television. See every Anthony Horowitz book in order.

Its place in Alex Rider

Stormbreaker is book 1 in the Alex Rider series. It is followed by Point Blanc. See the full Alex Rider reading order.

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider's uncle Ian raised him alone and, Alex discovers after Ian's sudden death, secretly worked for MI6 -- and the agency wants Alex, trained without his knowledge his entire childhood, to finish his uncle's last mission. From Stormbreaker onward, Alex is repeatedly blackmailed and coerced into deniable teenage espionage: infiltrating a billionaire's private school, a cloning facility, a Caribbean crime syndicate, and increasingly personal confrontations with the organization SCORPIA, all…

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