Alex Rider: Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz

Title: Snakehead Author: Anthony Horrowitz s Warning: May contain spoilers No sooner has Alex Rider splashed down off the coast of Australia than he is whisked off on another adventure. The ACIS (Australian Central Intelligence Service) are using him to infiltrate the ruthless Snakehead, but along the way he bumps into MI6 and more concerningly S.C.O.R.P.I.A. When Alex discovers S.C.O.R.P.I.A. s intentions it becomes a race against time, nature and the Korean government. Billions of lives are at stake and only Alex can save them. My favourite character has to be Major Winston Yu, who worked for MI6 during the Cold War. The Major sold top secret information to ...

Alex Rider: Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz

and the number of pages seems to reflect the amount of time the author has spent writing it, 2 years if the back cover is to be believed. Anthony Horowitz is probably one of the best writers of the 21st century so far, and the Alex Rider series is his flagship. It clearly reflects his excellent writing style. However, Horowitz seems to have moved on a bit from Children s writing, and brought the Alex Rider series with him. Perhaps this is a wise move as the original readers of the series will now be in their mid-teens. Alex seems to have been brought into the real world and away from the James Bond style paraphernalia that surrounded the early books. There are as many ...