Alex Rider companions
Alex Rider: The Gadgets
Spoiler-free summary
An illustrated guide to Alex Rider's high-tech equipment, with blueprints and behind-the-scenes detail rather than a new main-sequence mission.
The locations established in the book's spoiler-light premise, without revealing its later turns. The pleasure lies in coercion and choice and loyalty, shaped by a self-contained narrative organised around one escalating central problem..
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Can I start here?
Yes. The book or collection is designed to be approached without a required earlier volume.
What makes it different
This is the prop-room tour Alex fans always wanted: a chance to inspect the ingenious objects that save missions while remembering how cheerfully lethal Smithers can be.
Setting
The locations established in the book's spoiler-light premise, without revealing its later turns.
Content guidance
Threat, violence, weapons, coercion and child endangerment; intensity varies by mission.
Source-linked extras
Horowitz on the craft
Publisher-run series context, interviews and news. Only statements directly supported there are attributed to Horowitz.
Official Alex Rider site ↗Continuity
This book does not require knowledge of a numbered series.
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