Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Seventh book in the Alex Rider series.
After Alex's most challenging mission yet, he is picked up again, this time by the ASIS (the Australian Secret Service). He is working next to his godfather - the last person to see his parents alive. He moved to the ASIS after giving up with MI6. They are to target and infiltrate the great ruthless company of Snakehead and find out how they are smuggling illeagal immigrants into Austrailia. He meets MI6 and finds another plot much bigger than the one hes supposed to be searching. This leads to danger beyond belief. I enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed the rest of the books by Anthony Horowitz. I managed to get through it three days. I am giving it 9/10.
MB
I did enjoy this story. Again our young spy is caught in the middle of intrigue and double dealing. The big issue in this story is how he is dealing with the loss of his parents and the story pulls a lot of the threads in other stories together. Scorpia and the triads are heavily involved in this story. Alex again is used and is manipulated into agreeing to participate in yet another dangerous mission. It is interesting that again the child is manipulated by adults for their own ends with no consideration to the fact that Alex is a teenage boy. The story follows the usual style of plot but the pace of the story is cracking and it moves along at a fair pace. It was an exciting read and I really enjoyed this story. Is this the last Alex Rider story? Not sure but it was nicely tidied up at the end.
I Give it an 8 out of 10
JB
Overall 8.5/10
