MAKING OF back in the spy game

omewhere on London’s Commercial Road, the upstairs of a deserted office building has been turned into MI6 mission control: think blacked-out windows, computer monitors, lots of serious-faced adults in suits. We’re on the set of , the new eight-part adap of Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling teenage-spy saga. “You’ve come on a great day,” enthuses the. “This is to me one of the great Alex Rider scenes – where it all begins.”