Anthony Horowitz is a British novelist, screenwriter, and journalist.Author of over forty books, Horowitz first achieved mainstream success in the children’s fiction sphere with his Alex Rider series in the early 2000s. Since then, the series has sold an estimated 19 million copies worldwide, and been adapted into both a film and television series. Horowitz has also been commissioned by the states of Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming to write further Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels respectively, and has written for some of the UK’s most beloved TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War.He lives in London with his wife Jill, with whom he has two sons.