Skeleton Key: An Alex Rider Adventure: 3 - Softcover

Horowitz, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142406147 ISBN 13: 9780142406144

Publisher: Philomel Books, 2006

Synopsis

Alex Rider will soon be a star in his very own TV series!

Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time--from #1 New York Times bestselling author!

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first... Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia.

From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.

About this title

Review

A hugely entertaining, fast-paced book which deserves more than 5 stars. -- Cool Reads website

Done with enormous style, fun and suspense. Wannabe James Bonds will be completely hooked and eager for more. -- The Guardian

Horowitz will grip you with suspense, daring and cheek-and that's just the first page!...Prepare for action scenes as fast as a movie. -- The Times

From the Author

I had always wanted to write a modern 'teenager saves the world' story. It was a recurring fantasy when I was at school that I wasn't a bored thirteen year old stuck in a gruesome north London prep school, but that I was, in reality, an MI6 agent. At he same time, I wanted to make my story seem very creible. So I've researched everything from the rudiments of SAS training to remaing in a car until the very last moment before it's crushed in a breaker's yard, and I get my thirteen year old son Nicholas to try out things like diving and snowboarding!

Edition details

• Publisher: Philomel Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0142406147
• ISBN 13: 9780142406144
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368