Alex Rider is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a nondescript bank manager - or so it seems until his uncle, Ian Rider, disappears under mysterious circumstances. Alex soon learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain's secret intelligence service MI6, and he is recruited to take on a dangerous mission for the British secret service to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire. Within days he's gone from schoolboy to super spy -but will Alex's first assignment be his last?