In this story, Alex Rider's uncle dies in what the police call a car accident. He lived with his uncle, so he went to examine the car that he died in and saw that it full of shotgun bullet holes. Then, someone calls Alex to meet him at a bank. Alex finds out that the bank that his uncle was working at was accually a secret agent agency. He gets hired on to the agency to continue the work that his uncle started. He discovers that the stormbreaker computers contained a deadly disease that the owner was planning on using to kill all of the students in Great Brittain.