Alex Rider: Christmas At Gunpoint is a short story by British author Anthony Horowitz. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956 is an English Author and Screenwriter.
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. The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by English author Anthony Horowitz about a young spy named Alex Rider. The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency.
Christmas At Gunpoint is canonical with the Alex Rider series; it is a prequel story to the series. This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series A prequel is a work that portrays events and/or aspects of a previously completed narrative but is set prior to the existing narrative 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. See also First person First-person narrative is a Narrative mode in which a Story is narrated by one character, who explicitly All other works are written in the third person. The third-person narrative is a Narrative mode applying the third person.
The story was published exclusively for the Daily Mail in late 2006. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It is released in two parts, Part Two being released one week after Part One.
Plot
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. Alexander "Alex" Rider is a Fictional character. He is the Protagonist and Title character of the popular Alex Rider The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. 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. A laptop computer, also known as a notebook computer, is a small Personal computer designed for mobile use. 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.