| "Alex Rider: Secret Weapon" | |
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| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Alex Rider |
| Genre(s) | Spy fiction |
| Published in | The Funday Times |
| Publication type | Periodical |
| Publisher | Times Newspapers |
| Media type | Newspaper |
| Publication date | February 3 2003 |
"Alex Rider: Secret Weapon" is a short story by British author Anthony Horowitz.
Like Horowitz's Alex Rider series, it is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Alex Rider, who is a spy for MI6 against his will.
Secret Weapon is canon. It takes place after the events of Skeleton Key (the third novel) but before the events of Eagle Strike (the fourth novel).
It tells more details of how Alex is coping with his double life as a schoolboy-spy. Skoda, a minor antagonist from Point Blanc (the second novel), makes a reappearance in the story when he tries to take revenge on Alex for destroying his drug supplies, which happened in the second chapter of that same novel.
The story was published in The Funday Times, on February 9, 2003.[1]
Alex Rider is at school again. He is in a hurry for his class, and he runs into a new teacher at the school. He does not recognize her, and she tells him her name is Miss Treat (Miss Summers in the American version), to which Alex humorously replies "You certainly are." Miss Treat reminds Alex not to run in the corridors.
A little while later, Alex is on a school excursion in a weapons museum when he encounters Skoda, a drug dealer whom Alex had used a crane to drop the canal boat he had been living in from a height into the middle of a police conference. Skoda was put in jail for selling drugs, after they stitched his injured face back together. Obviously, his face has changed since Alex last saw him.
Skoda pretends to be a security guard but Alex recognizes his teeth (he had no front ones) but before Alex can do anything, Skoda knocks him to the ground and traps him there. He attempts to stab Alex with a sword from the museum, but Miss Treat arrives on the scene and shoots Skoda with a tranquilizer gun before he can hurt Alex. Miss Treat then tells Alex that she is with MI6, and was sent undercover as a teacher to his school to keep an eye on him. After Alex thanks her for saving his life, she once again reminds him not to run.
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