STORMBREAKER BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ : When his uncle dies in suspicious manner, Alex Rider who is fourteen years old finds his world turned upside down for the worst to come. As forced to recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in this heart-wrenching SAS training exercises. A short while after, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Storm-breaker computers. Sayle has offered to give one free to every school in the country – but there’s more to the gift than meets the eye.

A Spy Among Friends By  BEN MACINTYRE : Along with his ‘friends’ Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton, Kim Philby was one of the rising stars in the intelligence world during the early years of the Cold War. The three spies drank in the same bars, wore the same suits and spoke with the same accents, but Philby had one secret he never revealed to MI6 agent Elliott and CIA agent Angleton – he was covertly working for Moscow.

The link between the two texts are that they are both about the life of spies and precautions they have to take to save peoples lives and well-being. Even the though they do this the spies have to go through immense training to succeed in their missions .  By Kelvin.