Scorpia
Book - 2005
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
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Publisher:
New York : Puffin Books, 2005.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Series:
ISBN:
9780142405789
0142405787
9780399241512
0399241515
0142405787
9780399241512
0399241515
Call Number:
HOROWITZ
Characteristics:
388 p. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
Terrorism -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Spy stories.
Adventure fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Spy stories.
Adventure fiction.
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jingpeterlin
Apr 27, 2015
jingpeterlin thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 10 and 21
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JihadiConservative
Apr 22, 2013
JihadiConservative thinks this title is suitable for 12 years and over
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JihadiConservative
Apr 22, 2013
Violence: some the worst it gets is a man with a sword thrown into his brain
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crazycoolbff
Jul 10, 2014
SCORPIA--Sabotage and Corruption. Intelligence and Assassination.
SCORPIA NEVER FORGOT.
SCORPIA NEVER FORGAVE.
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Add a Commentstormbreaker- Alex does not die there are four more Alex Rider adventures.
Before starting this I would advise you to read all the previous books before this one because if you do not, you will be confused and those book will be spoiled. In Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider, a teenage spy for MI6, gets entangled with a criminal group called Scorpia. He learns that his father was a part of it and so was Yassen Gregorovich (who told him) before he died. After he escapes, Alan Blunt, the head of MI6, informs him that Scorpia has a plan to kill every British child in England. So Alex gets sent back to Scorpia as a double agent to prevent Scorpia's plan, Invisible Sword. He also learns something about his father that shocked him. Alex had also been injected with a nanoshell but for a special reason and the only reason he said yes was because of the doctor and the lame excuse of “more vitamins”. Scorpia is proceeding with Invisible Sword is for money because a rich, Middle Eastern man wants to end the American-British alliance and will pay them 25 million dollars. The way Scorpia planned this is by secretly putting nanoshells in vaccines for Landon school kids which contain a powerful poison contained in a golden sphere, so the poison won't hit the heart until the right time. Then Scorpia will detonate the spheres (that are only a billionth of a hair long) by sending terahertz(radio) waves to destroy the golden shells and let the poison kill them. [5/5 from me :)] Find out what happens!
AWESOME!!! As always!!! I LOVE the Alex Rider series!!!!!! It is NEVER BORING!!!!
Alex dies he gets shot by sniper in he last few pages but best Alex rider book I have read so far
Awesome!!!!!! We got to see a darker side to Alex
Very fun and exciting. I grew up with this and Rangers.
Wow, I mean, wow. This was amazing. I couldn't get enough of it. The ending was fantastic, Supermegafoxyawesomehot amazing. And the ending, it was superb, it was satisfying even when so many books aren't.
-Buttercup
I liked it a lot!!!!
This book Rules wish i could keep it forever all Alex rider books are good wait not good out of this world good! I didn't like it as much as eagle strike though.
this was the best Alex Rider adventure