Anthony Horowitz - Nightrise

There are some books I just couldnt write without help and this was one of them. So let me start with Crystal Main, Social Services Chief in Carson City, Nevada, who opened so many doors for me. She arranged for me to visit the Jan Evans Juvenile Hall in Reno and the Summit View Youth Correctional Centre outside Las Vegas. I have borrowed elements from both in writing this, but Silent Creek is entirely my own invention. Id also like to thank Audrey Fetters, the superintendent at Summit View particularly for providing me with some ingenious escape plans! I was very fortunate to meet Lynda Shoshone and Keith Daniel Wyatt, both elders of the Washoe Indian tribe; they told me much about their culture and history. I also owe a debt of thanks to Robert Wilkins, who first suggested Auburn to me as a location. The town right down to the statue of Claude Chana is exactly as I describe it in the book. My assistant, Cat Taylor, arranged the research trip for me and my editor, Chris Kloet, has helped knock the book into shape. Finally, my son Cassian read the manuscript and gave me some great ideas.

The Alex Rider series:
Stormbreaker
Point Blanc
Skeleton Key
Eagle Strike
Scorpia
Ark Angel
Snakehead
Crocodile Tears

The Power of Five (Book One): Ravens Gate
The Power of Five (Book Two): Evil Star
The Power of Five (Book Three): Nightrise
The Power of Five (Book Four): Necropolis

The Devil and His Boy
Granny
Groosham Grange
Return to Groosham Grange
The Switch
More Bloody Horowitz (coming soon)

The Diamond Brothers books:
The Falcons Malteser
Public Enemy Number Two
South By South East
The French Confection
I Know What You Did Last Wednesday
The Blurred Man
The Greek Who Stole Christmas

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is one of the most popular childrens writers working today. Both The Power of Five and Alex Rider are No.1 bestselling series and have been enjoyed by millions of readers worldwide. Anthony is particularly excited by Necropolis, which he sees as a major step in a new direction. For a start, its his first book with a full-blooded female at the heart of the action. It also develops the themes that began with Ravens Gate and sets up the epic finale which he plans to begin soon. Anthony was married in Hong Kong and went back there to research the book. Everything you read is inspired by what he saw.

The hugely successful Alex Rider series, which has spurred a trend of junior spy books, has achieved great critical acclaim and Anthony has won numerous awards including the Booksellers Association/Nielsen Author of the Year Award 2007, the Childrens Book of the Year Award at the 2006 British Book Awards, and the Red House Childrens Book Award. The first adventure, Stormbreaker, was made into a blockbuster movie, starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy and Robbie Coltrane.

Anthonys other titles for Walker Books include the Diamond Brothers mysteries; Groosham Grange and its sequel, Return to Groosham Grange; The Devil and His Boy; Granny and The Switch. Anthony also writes extensively for TV, with programmes including Midsomer Murders, Poirot and the drama series Foyles War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award 2003. He is married to television producer Jill Green and lives, reluctantly, in London with his two part-time sons, Nicholas and Cassian and their dog, Dreary.

You can find out more about Anthony and his books at:

www.anthonyhorowitz.com

www.powerof5.co.uk

A belting supernatural horror story. Not a read for the squeamish!

The Funday Times

Gripping, full of suspense and as twisty as an Alpine pass. Matt Freemans adventures eclipse even those of the formidable Alex Rider.

The Scotsman

Horowitz is an absolute master of narrative suspense.

The Times

A fantastically fluent, fast-moving, intelligent, action-packed read.

Ian Hislop,The Daily Telegraph

Horowitz ratchets things up a notch A master of edge-of-your-seat writing.

American Library Association,Booklist

Think Buffy crossed with The Da Vinci Code.

TES

A supernatural adventure of the most chilling kind The tension explodes into the sort of chase scenes that makes this author a favourite.

The Times

Go. Visit. Have an exhilarating read.

Kirkus Reviews

Scorpia may be defeated, but the Old Ones are definitely back!

THE POWER OF FIVE

Book Four

The next bestseller from Anthony Horowitz

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Alex Rider - youre never too young to die

Horowitz is pure class, stylish but action-packed being James Bond in miniature is way cooler than being a wizard.

Daily Mirror

Explosive, thrilling, action-packed meet Alex Rider.

Guardian

The perfect hero genuine 21st century stuff.

Daily Telegraph

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The two men in the black limousine had already circled the theatre once. Now they pulled in on the other side of the road, opposite the main door. Outside, the temperature was well into the eighties. But they had turned the air-conditioning on full and the car was like a refrigerator. They sat in silence. The two of them had worked together for many years and despised each other. They had nothing to say.

The theatre was at the northern end of Reno, Nevada. It was a square red-brick building with a single door and no windows and could have been a bank or possibly a chapel but for the neon sign over the front door. It was supposed to read THE RENO PLAYHOUSE, but half the letters had fused so that, as the two men watched it from where they were parked in Virginia Street, just two words flashed at them through the fading light: HERE LOSE.

It wasnt exactly the most attractive invitation in a city that was dedicated to gambling, where every other building seemed to be a casino and where the hotels, the bars, even the launderettes, were stuffed with slot machines. Despite its name, the Reno Playhouse hadnt actually put on a play from the day it had been built. Instead, it provided a temporary home to a long line of second-rate performers: singers and dancers, conjurors and comedians who had all been famous, briefly, a very long time ago but who had never really been heard of since. These were the sort of people who performed night after night, trying to entertain audiences who were only thinking of the money they had come to win or, worse, the money they had already lost.