Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.