Skeleton Key (New Windmills KS3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435130994 ISBN 13: 9780435130992

Publisher: Heinemann, 2004

Synopsis

In this title, someone is trying to sabotage the Wimbledon championships. MI6 sends its best agent, teenage spy Alex Rider, to discover who could be behind the plot. Armed with some gadgets, can he outwit a murderous Chinese gang, a great white shark and an insane Russian bent on destroying the world?

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: Heinemann
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435130994
• ISBN 13: 9780435130992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Horowitz Mr Anthony