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When the doorbell rings three in the morning it s never good news.
The quote could be taken from Ian Fleming, but in fact it is the opening line of Stormbreaker, the first novel in Anthony Horowitz s globally successful Alex Rider series. The echo of Fleming is notable for two reasons: firstly, Alex is a teenage spy who s saved the world nearly as many times as James Bond (13 times and counting).
Secondly, the stories are played totally straight: Horowitz saw himself as writing an adult book for kids and Alex s world is no less dangerous or brutal than Bond s. The stakes are high Stormbreaker involves the attempted genocide of British schoolchildren, and that s one of the more grounded entries in that there isn t a nuclear bomb and the body count higher still.