Stormbreaker.

The book, not the movie. Just because you'd get a similar story to when I did Eragon, so I'll do the book this time. No, the movie wasn't that much of a fail in comparison, but it was a little disappointing. Anyway, doing the book.

Think James Bond meets Spy Kids, because Alex Rider ain't no kid. He's a rough and ready teen, trained for the job by his uncle, whom he only ever thought was a banker. Turns out he was actually a spy, and Alex only found out after he died. He subsequently gets reluctantly recruited by MI6, who use him to check out a too-good-to-be-true guy, Herod Sayle. He has just built a revolutionary new computer platform called the Stormbreaker, and plans to gift one to every school in the UK. But Sayle has a few tricks up his sleeve, and Alex will learn more about his uncle than he ever knew...and even come face-to-face with his killer.

It's a good action novel about a reluctant teen who just gets caught up in things he doesn't want to be. He wants to go home and live a normal life, but he can't sit idly by and just let things happen to him. And MI6 have threatened to remove his housekeeper/friend, Jack, due to a near-expired visa. But neither is he your average kid - he has a black-belt in karate, is an experienced diver, and speaks multiple languages; he has also engaged in many extreme sports.

But the thing about Alex Rider is that the author makes you think that, if things had been a bit different, you might have turned out quite similarly. And that's the charm of the series, I think, coupled with some good action and interesting ethical difficulties (though that's more in the latter books than this one). But anyway, a pretty good book.