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Alexander "Alex" Rider was born on February 13th 1987, in West London, England. He is described as a strikingly good-looking 14-year-old boy, with blond hair cut short apart from two thick strands hanging over his forehead, and serious brown eyes. Alex is exceptionally well-built and slim, and has a suntan.

When Alex was a baby, his parents were killed by an international terrorist organisation. Alex's now-deceased uncle, Ian Rider, who was an MI6 agent under cover as a banker, raised Alex and trained him his whole life to be his successor, although Alex did not realize this until after Ian's death. Now, Alex is a young agent for MI6, the British international intelligence service. He was forced into this occupation after "Alan Blunt", the head of the Special Operations division of MI6, noticed Alex's many talents. In fact Alex, is highly reluctant to follow in Ian's footsteps and in most cases, MI6 coerce him in to taking on missions.