Disclaimer: I do not own Alex Rider.

The last thing that Alex Rider wanted was for his children to involve themselves in spying. The fact that they had been born at all was a minor miracle, given how many times their father had almost died.

Jake went to Oxford before he enlisted. This immediately raised Alex's sea of red flags. Sure enough, his son was soon SAS, and they knew less and less of his whereabouts.

Adam took a more direct route. He visited the Royal and General and demanded a job. The new heads granted it, of course. The Rider legacy was, by now, a legend.