Skeleton Key: An Alex Rider Adventure - Hardcover

Horowitz, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399237771 ISBN 13: 9780399237775

Publisher: Philomel Books, 2003

Synopsis

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

A New York Times bestselling series.

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside, and stood face-to-face with evil. Twice, young Alex has saved 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.

The phenomenon that is the Alex Rider series returns with pulse-quickening action as, for the first time, Britain's MI6 and America's CIA unite forces. Be glad Alex is on our side.

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!

About this edition

• Publisher: Philomel Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399237771
• ISBN 13: 9780399237775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272