After a near escape from a car crusher (and a fight with the dismantlers), Alex is asked to visit Ian's former employers, a bank called "Royal & General". He finds his uncle's car at a wrecking yard, and discovers that his uncle had been murdered, shot repeatedly. Alex becomes suspicious upon being told that the outwardly safety-conscious Ian had been not wearing his seat belt, and discovering that Ian's office in the house attic has been emptied out whilst he and Jack were attending Ian's funeral. Unbeknownst to Alex and his housekeeper, Jack Starbright, Ian's position as a "banker" was actually a cover for his role as an MI6 agent. The novel opens as fourteen-year-old Alex Rider learns that his uncle and legal guardian, Ian Rider, has been killed in a car crash. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead.
But he is about to, and once he does, there is no turning back. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission.
But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they claimed. They told him his uncle died in an accident.
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