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Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, forging excused absences, you name it. He graduated high school top of his class...seventeen times. Of course, no one knows any of this. Not that he wants to go unnoticed. It’s just safer that way. So for the last several decades, Alexander has been forced to move from town to small town to even smaller town - he just bought his 651st house - in an effort to live a painfully quiet life. But when a mysterious cabal attempts to kidnap him and kill his friends, Alexander must use all his skills and centuries of training to outwit the most dangerous man alive, the mastermind of a plot that would change the world forever. Clever, intriguing, skillfully woven with humor, Alexander X launches us on an epic journey toward a future few of us will survive, rising from a past we never knew existed.

Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, sleight of hand, school. It would take most people a lifetime to master everything he has. Actually...it's taken Alexander MUCH, much longer than that. For decades, he’s been forced to hide his talents and live in obscurity. It’s not that he wants to go unnoticed. It’s just safer for everyone that way. That is until a mysterious cabal attempts to kidnap him and kill his friends, Alexander must use all his skills and centuries of training to outrun and outwit the most dangerous man alive, the mastermind of a plot that will change the world forever.Clever, intriguing, skillfully woven with humor, ALEXANDER X launches us on an epic journey toward a future few of us will survive, rising from a past we never knew existed.

Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, sleight of hand, school. It would take most people a lifetime to master everything he has. Actually...it’s taken Alexander MUCH, much longer than that. For nearly a hundred years, he’s been forced to hide his talents and live in obscurity. It’s not that he wants to go unnoticed. It’s just safer for everyone that way. That is until a mysterious cabal attempts to kidnap him and kill his friends. Alexander must use all his skills and centuries of training to outrun and outwit the most dangerous man alive, the mastermind of a plot that will change the world forever.Clever, intriguing, skillfully woven with humor, ALEXANDER X launches us on an epic journey toward a future few of us will survive, rising from a past we never knew existed.

Okay, first off, if you’re reading this, I’m breaking about a dozen rules here. Easy. I’ll probably get grounded for it. And by grounded, I don’t mean I’ll have to stay in my room unable to go out the next twenty-five Saturday nights, I mean, grounded. Into dust. And buried under a thousand pounds of rock. That kind of grounded. But I need help, and the only way to convince you and everyone else to give me that help is to tell you my story. The fact that you’re reading this means that, at least where you are, people can still print things or electronically disseminate information. You’re alive. You might even have electricity. I hate to tell you, I’m not sure how long that’s going to last. You see, they have a plan. And believe me when I say this, time is on their side. Someone once told me my name means “the defender of mankind.” Unfortunately, it may actually come to that. My name is Alexander Grant. I’m a sophomore at Monument High. Today is my birthday. And at precisely 3:16 this afternoon, I turn fifteen— —hundred years old. ------------- Alexander Grant is about to take his 3000th history test. You know how you feel like you’ve been going to school for a thousand years? Well, he actually has. No one in his school has any idea that—although he looks like a normal teenager—he’s actually 1500 years old. Not the girl he likes. Not his best friend. No one. That is until someone tries to kidnap Alexander and use him as bait to catch his father, the only man capable of stopping a plan that would change humanity forever. Ingenious storytelling. Fresh. Funny. Thought provoking. Screenwriter and novelist Edward Savio's ongoing epic adventure created to entertain his own kids...is now being released for the rest of us.