Anthony Horowitz is a novelist and screenwriter whose work ranges from the Alex Rider teen-spy series to metafictional murder mysteries, authorized Sherlock Holmes and James Bond continuations, and original television drama. His writing repeatedly turns familiar genre machinery into brisk puzzles about identity, danger, detection, and storytelling itself.
Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first. Uniting forces with the CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia.
Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Meet the orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle’s killers . . . Alex Rider's is debut mission is packed with bonus material - including an extra Alex Rider short story, a letter from Anthony Horowitz, and much more! From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. “Slam-bang action, spying and high-tech gadgets . . . a non-stop thriller!”—Kirkus Reviews
After investigations connect the suspicious deaths of two powerful men to Point Blanc Academy, MI6 sends teenage agent Alex Rider into the isolated school under a false identity. The academy promises to reform rebellious sons of wealthy families, but its remote Alpine location and sinister director, Dr. Grief, conceal a larger plan. Equipped with disguised gadgets, Alex must learn what is happening inside the school without exposing his mission. What he discovers puts him in a race to escape and warn the outside world.
Teenage spy Alex Rider is forced into service with an Australian intelligence agency and sent into the criminal underworld of Southeast Asia. His target is Snakehead, a ruthless organization whose reach makes the assignment especially dangerous. Operating far from familiar support, Alex must gather information while protecting his identity and surviving people prepared to use violence to defend their network. The mission tests how much control he retains over the life imposed on him.
Anthony Horowitz works across books for young people and adults, television, film, theatre, and journalism. His long-running Alex Rider sequence recasts the spy thriller around a reluctant teenage intelligence asset, while his television career includes creating Foyle's War and writing the earliest Midsomer Murders episodes.
Horowitz has also written authorized continuation fiction for two defining British characters: Sherlock Holmes for the Conan Doyle estate and James Bond for the Ian Fleming estate. His own adult mysteries include the Susan Ryeland novels and the Hawthorne series, which turns a fictional version of Horowitz into the detective's narrator and sidekick, deliberately weakening the author's usual position of control.
His books and screenwriting frequently meet through adaptation. Horowitz wrote the screenplay for the Stormbreaker feature film, adapted Magpie Murders for television, and has described adaptation as dismantling a novel with respect: reducing detail and reshaping structure so that a story remains legible in a medium where audiences cannot simply turn back fifty pages.
