Part of Series
Five weeks after the events of Scorpia Rising, Alex is living in San Francisco, slowly recovering from the death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists. Alex feels lost and alone, but then, out of the blue, he receives a mysterious email. It's just three words long—but it's enough to make him believe that Jack may be alive after all. Armed with this tiny glimmer of hope, Alex boards a flight bound for Egypt. But the deadly organization Scorpia isn't finished yet. As Alex searches for Jack, the pieces of a dangerous puzzle start to emerge... The theft of the world's most powerful helicopter; evil twin brothers brought up in the Mafia; an operation called "Steel Claw." Somehow they're connected and Alex has to find out how if he is to prevent a new terrorist plot. From a deserted fort in Egypt to a luxury yacht in the South of France and an abandoned mine in the Welsh valleys, Alex has to untangle a web of threats and cryptic clues as he fights to discover the truth.
Author
Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009. On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk. http://us.macmillan.com/author/anthon...
