Posing as a competition winner Felix Lester, Alex gathers as much information as he can before his cover is blown. Nowadays spies weren't employed, they were used.Īfter brief training with the K-Unit at the SAS training camp, Brecon Beacons, Alex is sent to Cornwall to investigate the Middle-Eastern billionaire Herod Sayle. In the old days, spies had done what they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. In the end, the big difference between him and James Bond wasn't a question of age. ![]() He still does not express any interest in following in his father’s and uncle’s footsteps in becoming a full-time MI6 agent.īlunt had forced him into this. Jack Starbright has been seen worrying about his education in the novels, and even hires a tutor to help him catch up on the work he had missed while 'saving the world' in Eagle Strike.īefore Alex was forced to join MI6, he wanted to be a professional footballer, but is now unsure of what he wants to do when he finishes school, once jokingly stating he wanted to be a train driver. Though Alex normally attends Brookland School in London, his education has been interrupted several times due to his involvement with MI6. Since, Alex has been on several official and unofficial missions, all notably in the same year. He convinced (or rather blackmailed) Alex to work for him. ![]() While investigating the death of his uncle, Ian Rider, Alex came to Alan Blunt's notice who thought that he would make a good replacement for Ian. It is mentioned that the school secretary, Jane Bedfordshire, has always had a soft spot for Alex. Alex once showed remarkable skill in a mathematics class by solving a problem on the blackboard after just glancing at it, despite having been distracted most of the lesson. It is mentioned that he finds physics boring. However, as he is not the type to seek popularity, Alex doesn’t mind this much.įrom Alex’s hobbies, his favourite subjects in school are likely to be physical education and language. Raised in a somewhat different environment than most other boys his age, Alex tends not to relate much to his peers and does not have many close friends in the school. Tom Harris is one of Alex's friends at Brookland. Īlex is shown to attend Brookland Comprehensive School in almost every book and also in the movie and TV series. Alex and Jack became great friends over time. Thus, Jack babysits Alex and keeps the house in order when Ian was on MI6 work. When Alex was seven years old, Ian hired Jack Starbright, a young American student, to move in with him and Alex and work as a part-time housekeeper and babysitter for Alex. Tom didn't protect him but, Alex 'stood up for himself like he always does.' Later, Tom had a laugh about it with Alex and they became friends. Apparently, when he was six, Alex was being bullied by some older kids. Tom tells Kyra how he and Alex came to be best friends. Ian taught him essential skills like, foreign languages, snowboarding, surfing and scuba diving, which were later revealed in Stormbreaker to be a part of his spy training.Īlex also befriended Tom Harris, when he was six. Alex mentioned driving a quad bike in the sand-dunes of Death Valley, Nevada on a holiday. Among other places, Alex visited and stayed in the Marais district of Paris, France, and once even lived abroad for the best part of a year in Barcelona, Spain. He also took Alex on foreign tours quite often. Ian made Alex join Karate classes when he was six. ![]() Ian and Alex had a close relationship, doing practically everything together when Ian was home, which was not often as Ian was also secretly a secret agent who worked for the Special Operations Division of MI6. įollowing his parent's demise, Alex’s paternal uncle Ian Rider adopted Alex and raised him in his house in Chelsea, London. He would have been flown out to them when he had recovered. Fortunately, Alex was not on the plane, having been left behind with a nanny due to an ear infection. Alexander Rider was born on February 13, 1996, in East London, England, to John Rider, an MI6 agent and Helen Rider, at the time working as a nurse in radiology.Īlex was three months old when his mother and father were killed in an airplane "accident." Later, in Snakehead's missing chapter CODA, it is revealed that Alex’s godfather, Anthony Sean Howell ( Ash, acronym of his three first initials), placed a bomb on their plane and detonated it under orders from SCORPIA's founding member Julia Rothman who was angry because John had tricked SCORPIA.
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