Scorpia (Alex Rider Adventure)
by Anthony Horowitz
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Author: Anthony HorowitzBrand: Speak
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-16
ISBN: 0142405787
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Speak
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- ISBN13: 9780142405789
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Scorpia (Alex Rider Adventure)
Book Review: Another fantastic book in the Alex Rider series!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a grown-up. I'm supposed to read "grown-up" literature (which I do), but I cannot resist this Alex Rider series. The fifth book in the series, "SCORPIA," is the best--meaning most twisted thrill ride of them all (and that's saying a lot!).
It's weird that this "young adult" series follows a formula of sorts: bad guys/gals of some kind threatening some part of the world in some way with Alex Rider, a 14-year-old kid who brings them all down and thwarts their evil plans. Oh, throw in wildly imaginative ways for Alex to be killed and how he escapes them all! Nope, none of this is spoilers because each novel follows the formula, so-to-speak. It's how writer/creator Anthony Horowitz manages to get Alex out of his incredible situations AND make them believable, so-to-speak.
The plot elements are so wild, so imaginative, so incredible that none of this should work, but it does. Each new novel in the series is a new challenge: Can Horowitz pull it off again? "SCORPIA" is simply the most amazing in the series.
What is SCORPIA? It is an acronym for "sabotage, corruption, intelligence, assassination." One of the eleven directors is Julia Rothman, a beautiful but deadly woman who recruits Alex into the organization. Yeah, yeah, he's been working for M16, Britain's intelligence organization, but now he's turning to the other side. SCORPIA has created an "invisible sword," which it plans to use to kill thousands of 12-13 year old British schoolboys unless the United States meets certain demands, which of course they won't. How will Alex be part of this? Can he?
Suffice it to say, he will escape an underwater cellar in Venice, BASE-jump onto the roof of a pharmaceutical building and miraculously escape being blown to bits, well, you get the idea. Fantastic goings-on in this book. Incredible escapes. But there's the ending. Oh my, Horowitz cannot be serious.
Alex Rider. Anthony Horowitz. What a team! What a great read! "Ark Angel" is next!
Summary of Scorpia (Alex Rider Adventure)
Alex Rider, teen spy, has always been told he is the spitting image of the father he never knew. But when Alex learns that his father may have been an assassin for the most lethal and powerful terrorist organization in the world, Scorpia, his world shatters. Now Scorpia wants Alex on their side, and Alex no longer has the strength to fight them. That is, until he learns of Scorpia?s latest plot: an operation known only as "Invisible Sword" that will result in the death of thousands of people. Can Alex prevent the slaughter, or will Scorpia prove once and for all that the terror will not be stopped?Fans of the Alex Rider Adventures will not be disappointed by the slam-bang action in this fifth book in the spy thriller series, although the ending may leave them feeling a bit dismayed. A parachute jump onto the roof of a super-secure pharmaceutical complex, a desperate escape from a water-filled cellar under the canals of Venice, elegant and witty encounters with mega-criminals bent on death -- it's all here, and Alex, still 14-years old, comes out ahead every time in spite of the heavy odds against him. "Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny," Alex was told by a dying man at the end of the previous book, Eagle Strike. And so we find him; in Venice, with his friend Tom, looking for clues to his father's identity and death. Was he an agent of M16, the secret world organization that has used Alex before? Or was he a tool of Scorpia, the powerful international criminal agency that specializes in sabotage, corruption, intelligence, and assassination? And which are the bad guys? Alex loses track as he is recruited by the beautiful and deadly Julia Rothman, one of the nine executives of Scorpia, to be trained at their Venetian island school for assassins and to take part in a plot to kill thousands of 12 and 13-year-olds in England. Caught between shifting allegiances and different versions of his father's life and death, Alex outwits and outfights everybody as the plot rockets along to a smash finish that will leave readers breathless and shocked. (Ages 10-14) --Patty Campbell
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