Books for 13 yr old DS who likes

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Charlie Higson, Alex Ryder, (auto) biographies based on historical people...
Like to get him some books for Christmas but stuck for ideas and my favorite person in Waterstones wasn't in today

How about the Flashman books by George Macdonald Fraser?

He's taken the bad boy bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays and inserted him into real Victorian historical events.

Young Sherlock series by Andrew Lane

Department 19 series by Will Hill - brings Frankenstein and Dracula into the present day

Flash Flood by Chris Ryan - full of action and adventure

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids or The Chrysalids

Chris Ryan books, there are a million of them.

Great, none of these, other then Young Sherlock, ring a bell!