Ten million Alex Rider books sold worldwide. Other Alex Rider missions: "Snakehead", "Stormbreaker", "Point Blanc", "Skeleton Key", "Eagle Strike", "Scorpia" and "Ark Angel".

Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1955), is an English author and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels for ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War and the series Midsomer Murders.