Alex Rider: The Gadgets is a short factbook by Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...

, author of the Alex Rider

Alex Rider

Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by British author Anthony Horowitz about a 14-15 year old spy named Alex Rider. The series is aimed primarily at young adults. Nine novels have been published to date, as well as three graphic novels, three short stories and a supplementary book...

 series. It was released on 3 October 2005 in the UK, published by Walker Books

Walker Books

Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker.The success of their Where's Wally? series enabled them to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991.Amelia Edwards, co-founder of Walker Books,...

. The book shows blueprints of the gadgets that Alex

Alex Rider (character)

Alex Rider is a fictional character, and the protagonist and title character of the popular Alex Rider novel series by British author Anthony Horowitz...

, the novel's 14-year-old protagonist, has used.

The first released edition contained gadgets from the first five novels. The second edition released after Ark Angel

Ark Angel

Ark Angel is the sixth book in the Alex Rider series written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2005 and in the United States on April 20, 2006.- Plot summary:...

, added gadgets from the sixth novel. As such, the book does not contain any of the gadgets from Snakehead

Snakehead (novel)

Snakehead is the seventh novel in the Alex Rider series written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in Australia on 28 September 2008, in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2007, and in the U.S. on 13 November 2007. The title comes from the name given to Asian gangs involved in...

, Crocodile Tears

Crocodile Tears (novel)

Crocodile Tears is the eighth novel in the Alex Rider series by British author Anthony Horowitz. It was released in the UK on 12 November 2009, published by Walker Books, and in the U.S. on 17 November 2009. On 17 December 2008, the title was revealed to be Crocodile Tears...

or the new book Scorpia Rising

Scorpia Rising

Scorpia Rising, the ninth novel in the Alex Rider series, was released March 2011. In the book, Scorpia is hired to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Their plan includes the laying of a false trail to Cairo, Egypt, killing Alex Rider, and blackmailing London into returning the Marbles...

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As well as blueprints for the gadgets, the book contains fictional letters from Smithers, the MI6 gadget expert, to further explain the gadgets.

The GameBoy systems described are a different design from their real-world counterparts, possibly to avoid copyright issues.