Tiburones. Asesinos. Bombas nucleares... y un diabolico plan para destruir el mundo. Alex Rider, involuntario superespia adolescente, le es util al MI6 -el servicio secreto britanico- de un modo en el que un adulto nunca podria serlo. Y ahora necesitan su ayuda una vez mas. Sin embargo, una rutinaria mision de reconocimiento en los campeonatos de tennis de Wimbeldon pone en marcha una terrible cadena de acontecimientos que obliga a Alex a huir de las sangrientas triadas chinas. / Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it.