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    ANTHONY HOROWITZ

    Mar 25, 2020 3 minutes
    Words by Jonathan Wright
    Photography by Will Ireland

    HOW, AS A WRITER, DO YOU RETURN TO A character over multiple books without writing yourself into a corner? This was a problem that confronted Anthony Horowitz a few years back with one of his most famous creations: teenage secret agent Alex Rider. With some fanfare, he announced in 2012 that Russian Roulette would be the last Rider novel.

    Looking back, Horowitz suggests, Alex Rider had matured – as anyone would after saving the world on multiple occasions – but in this

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