alex rider: scorpia rising

Information about the book

Title: Scorpia rising

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Walker Books

Place and year of publication: first published in 2011 in London

Number of pages: 431

Where I found it: I bought it at a bookshop

Plot:

Part one of this book gives a introduction on the activities and characters of the Scorpia operation. When Zeljan Kurst arrived in London, MI6 became very suspicious and followed him to the British Museum. At the museum the MI6 operation failed and Scorpia agents assassinated all the MI6-agents. Despite high alert throughout the whole city to find the Scorpia agent he escapes with a brilliant disguise.

Part two takes up the majority of the book. Here the reader gets introduced to Alex and MI6 as well as the conflict with Scorpia and their agents. Meanwhile Alex Rider is trying to live a normal live again, but once a spy, always a spy. This means he will never have his old live back. At school his class comes under attack by a sniper. Alex follows the sniper to an old a house where he managed to disable the getaway helicopter. To his dismay the sniper and his accomplice were already gone. With all their agents killed MI6 recruits him again.

Scorpia helped Julius escape from prison to kill Alex, as a distraction to Alex. Scorpia tries to bring disgrace to England, steal and return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. It seems to be the end of Alex’s career and life....

One bullet

and

one life

the end is near, and this is where it starts.

Christian perspective

No, this book does not reflect a Christian perspective. Because it is about revenge agianst Alex and the MI6

Julius Grief is a character from the second book of the Alex Rider series. He was created in a lab by his “father” Hugo Grief hoe wanted to duplicates of the worlds most wealthy men‘s sons. Fortunately Alex stopped him and Hugo was killed in the proses. Now Julius would do any thing to get revenge.

Julius should forgive Alex and forget about it, and go on with his live. Or listen to his prison psychiatrist that could have helped him with his problem with Alex and help him continue with his live. He chose neither and escaped from his prison and tried to kill Alex but got killed him self.

What did I think about the book and who should read it:

This book and the rest of the Alex Rider series is brilliant and I would recommend it to any one who likes action packed books. I would also recommend to start by reading the first book in the series an work trough them sequentially.