When he’s not testing the Stormbreaker, Alex sneaks around the factory buildings and follows clues left by Ian. Grin (whose face was deformed in a circus knife throwing accident), and Sayle’s enormous jellyfish. Just before the crash, Ian had sent an urgent message to Blunt insisting that the Stormbreakers not leave the plant.Īlex visits Sayle’s estate, meeting the small but menacing inventor, his butler, Mr. Sayle’s seemingly altruistic plan - to give Stormbreakers to every secondary school in England - has aroused the suspicion of the MI6. Alex reluctantly agrees to work for them and receives a two-week crash course in MI6 operations training.Īlex poses as a boy genius, and Sayle invites him to test out his new, state-of-the-art computer system, Stormbreaker. They threaten to send Alex to an institution if he refuses. Ian was investigating a billionaire inventor named Herod Sayle, and they want Alex to help them finish the mission. They tell him they’re executives for the British intelligence agency known as MI6 and that Ian was one of their agents.
Security guards shoot him with a tranquilizer gun, and Alex wakes up in a posh house where he’s escorted to dinner with Ian’s former employers, Mr. When Ian’s “bank” calls Alex to discuss the will, the 14-year-old sneaks into his uncle’s old office and finds suspicious files. Alex wonders why someone would murder a banker - then he discovers clues that convince him his long-time guardian was not the man he claimed to be. So when he dies in a crash without wearing his seatbelt, his nephew, Alex, suspects foul play.
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