This is an excited Alex Rider, learns of the death of his uncle and adopted parent, Ian Rider, in a deadly car crash. Alex is suspicious, and decides to investigate. He finds that Ian Rider did not die in a car crash, and was, in fact, a spy who had been killed before completing his mission. He had actually been training Alex (who already speaks 5 different languages and is a black-belt in karate) for a career in MI6. Alan Blunt and his second-in-command, Mrs Jones, of MI6, ask Alex to pick up his uncle's assignment, investigating Herod Sayle, a Lebanese billionaire who is giving free "Stormbreaker" computers to every school in Britain. As an undercover agent, Alex travels to Sayle's home in Cornwall, and, following the path drawn by his uncle, discovers a large computer manufacturing facility, where the Stormbreaker computers are being tainted with smallpox virus. Before he can communicate with MI6, however, Alex is caught. Sayle leaves Alex to die in a tank and heads off to the Science Museum in London, where the Prime Minister is to activate the Stormbreakers, unwittingly releasing the deadly virus. Alex escapes, parachutes out of a hijacked airplane, and smashes through the roof of the Science Museum. With a stolen gun, he fires at the Stormbreakers and Sayle, hitting the Prime Minister in the hand and destroying the trigger that would have released the smallpox. After a debriefing by MI6, Alex gets into a taxi, intending to head home. The driver is Sayle, who had survived the attack and fled. Alex tells Yassen he will one day kill him, but Yassen brushes the comment aside, telling him to go back to his normal life and to forget about being a spy.
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