Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover – this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service – on a mission to infiltrate the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one to trust – and this time he needs all his wits to survive...
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Undercover in a poisonous world, teen spy Alex Rider is back for his seventh adrenalin-rush adventure!
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Anthony Horowitz is the creator of the phenomenal Alex Rider books and the bestselling Power of Five series and was recently voted the 2007 BA/Nielsen Author of the Year. He won the 2006 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for Ark Angel and the 2003 Red House Children's Book of the Year Award for Skeleton Key. Anthony, who wrote the script for the Alex Rider movie Stormbreaker, also writes extensively for TV, with credits including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. He lives in Clerkenwell, London.
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By Sophie Masson
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My family and I have been reading the Alex Rider novels since they first started coming out, and my youngest son has grown up with them. We found the latest to be the best yet--clever, classy, intrigue- and action-packed, with some great twists and turns. We also loved the fact it was set in our part of the world, in Australia and South-East Asia. A fantastic read, with some truly evil villains(including some horrible Dr Strangelove/Boys from Brazil medical types) and some great set-pieces, including a punishing bout for Alex of Muay Thai, the bloody Thai martial art with no holds barred at all!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Snakehead is another action packed adventure for Alex Rider MI6's youngest agent.
Alex has just returned from Ark Angel then he's back in danger but this time with a partner known only as Ash.
Alex has no gagdets, no weapons, and it seems no hope you need to know the other stories fairly well to listen or read this latest Alex story.
Many people and places from each book are mentioned in this for example Capser from Ark Angel.
We learn more about Alex's life before MI6 and the world of danger he is almost always in.
Will Alex come back alive this time buy this CD and find out.
Alex has just returned from Ark Angel then he's back in danger but this time with a partner known only as Ash.
Alex has no gagdets, no weapons, and it seems no hope you need to know the other stories fairly well to listen or read this latest Alex story.
Many people and places from each book are mentioned in this for example Capser from Ark Angel.
We learn more about Alex's life before MI6 and the world of danger he is almost always in.
Will Alex come back alive this time buy this CD and find out.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By P. M. Fernandez
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My 10 year old is a reluctant reader, on the whole. Most of the books that captured my attention when I was growing up (Narnia, Swallows and Amazons, The Hobbit) he struggles with. Even Harry Potter, who he loves, he gets bogged down in, and would rather I read to him.
Alex Rider is the exception. We went through all of the first six books in just over a school term. And when this one turned up, he read 50 pages in the first evening he got it.
I like the books as well, and managed to start this one before my son got his hands on it! Alex is a reluctant secret agent, and the scars and pain from earlier adventures stay with him. The issues that he faces - people trafficking in this book - are issues that children will hear about in the media, and the stories present them in such a way that they can see the human dimension. If anything, this book is a little less preposterous than some of the others (he isn't sent into space again ...!), but just as compulsive, and just as well geared into boys' minds.
Alex Rider is the exception. We went through all of the first six books in just over a school term. And when this one turned up, he read 50 pages in the first evening he got it.
I like the books as well, and managed to start this one before my son got his hands on it! Alex is a reluctant secret agent, and the scars and pain from earlier adventures stay with him. The issues that he faces - people trafficking in this book - are issues that children will hear about in the media, and the stories present them in such a way that they can see the human dimension. If anything, this book is a little less preposterous than some of the others (he isn't sent into space again ...!), but just as compulsive, and just as well geared into boys' minds.
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Another good read
Anybody that likes any of the previous Alex Rider books are sure to enjoy this one as well. I finished the book in under 40 hours but enjoyed every moment of it.
Published 2 months ago by Amar
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birthday gift
this item arrived on time, it is very good quality and over all a very good buy. i would recomend.
Published 2 months ago by L. Stewart
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Can't wait to read the next book in the series
Probably one of, if not the best in the series so far, couldn't put it down, a great read, would recommend it to anyone
Published 3 months ago by George Barton
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My son has read all these books he loves them, so he was really pleased when I got him this one, he can't put em down finishes em in 3 days and ready for the next
Published 4 months ago by donna
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Snakehead
I think that it was a adventurous action packed book as the story continues and he finds out more about his father and yet again faces another criminal (major Winston yu) wanting... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cameron
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Good
This is a really good book and I recommend it for a lot of people in all age group's .
Published 4 months ago by Tyler Marshall
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proper fiction for the younger reader
Reading this book after my son I understand his committment to this well written and carefully structured series. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dougal365spin
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Alex Rider series
My son is really enjoying this series; as soon as he finishes one book he begins the next Alex Rider adventure.
Published 16 months ago by J. F. Bradbrook-mann
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NO LETTING UP
Scorpia is a problem again, brittleboned Major Yu with plans for destruction on a massive scale. Australia's Secret Service asks for Alex's help, he tempted by news of who his... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. D. L. Rees
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Yu've been framed
Having long been a devotee of Anthony Horowitz's teenage spy series, I recently purchased this even though I had read it when it was first published. Read more
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