Alex Rider: Christmas at Gunpoint
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Alex Rider: Christmas At Gunpoint is a short story by British author Anthony Horowitz.
It features the protagonist of Horowitz's Alex Rider series, a young boy named Alex Rider who is forced to become an agent for MI6.
Christmas At Gunpoint is canonical with the Alex Rider series; it is a prequel story to the series. It takes place when Alex is thirteen years old, some months before the events of Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider novel.
The story is unique amongst Horowitz's other Alex Rider works in that it is written in the first person, with Alex telling the story. All other works are written in the third person.
The story was published exclusively for the Daily Mail in late 2006. It is released in two parts, Part Two being released one week after Part One.
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Alex Rider recounts one time he came very close to discovering the truth about his uncle:
Part One
Thirteen-year-old Alex and his uncle Ian are on a skiing holiday at Gunpoint, Colorado. Alex notices some strange men at the resort, as well as seeing his uncle behaving somewhat unusually around them. Alex is put in a difficult situation when he witnesses the kidnapping of Sahara Sands, a girl he met at the resort. He follows them.
Part Two
Alex has followed the kidnappers and finds out that Sahara has been kidnapped for the ransom of her father's laptop. When her father hands it over, Alex races down and snatches the laptop from the kidnappers, leading them on a high-speed ski chase to steal it back from him. When they are about to kill him, Ian shows up and saves Alex.
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