Alex has been through so much in a year and i feel so bad for this kid because he keeps getting brought back into this world and after telling himself again and again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Manusia yang berlindung di sebalik organisasi amal namun sebenarnya menggunakannya untuk kepentingan sendiri. While on his way back from school one day soon after, Alex walks to Brompton Cemetery and visits the grave of his uncle, Ian Rider. How on Earth can a fourteen year-old grab hold of a rope hanging from a plane while on a wobbly roof about to fall off?

Alex turns to MI6 for help but their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. It started out fine, and I thought for a moment this would be one heck of a book, and that at last, Mr Horowitz would deliver! He will live to see you go to jail or see you die He may even kill you Why can't Alex ever find something on his own? Plot: Alex is trying to live a normal life away from MI6 after telling them once again that he didn't want to be used again by them at the end of book seven. but still just as bloodpumping thrilling, nail-biting exciting and pure breathless addictive as ever!but alas, Im stuck with a different plot but the same exact concept as most of the books in this series. The author use informal diction here mostly because of the reputation of the series and to help readers connect easier with the character Alex who is 14, which is about the young adults age. Anyhew, baddie gets bored and leaves with his posse of strong, dead-eye tribesmen, leaving his fiancé to watch Alex fall to his death.

Things start moving pretty slowly, and initially it seems as though once again Anthony has no qualms in boring his readers with overly descriptive passages. Alex has come up with some clever ways on how he gets out of situations and i'm always surprised when he does because so many of these situations are impossible to get out of but Alex always does. The job is meant to be free of major risks, but this proves far from the truth when Alex discovers that the manager of the charity is also there, and seemingly involved in a conspiracy. I'm not a spy, but Anthony Horowitz made me feel like I was in Africa fighting along side Alex as he struggled to save the world yet again. I hope, if you read it, you'll enjoy all the clues, the red herrings, the bizarre range of suspects and the occasionally violent twists.I'm so invested in this series and for what, for some government official to say that because he's a kid, he's not worth their time? He wouldn't even be able to walk on the street without people pointing him out with curiosity, and all his struggle for a normal life would be a waste.

I loved the rooftop race with the ductwork and the time when Alex hung suspended over the hungry crocodiles. I would like it to be a surprise, diving into Alex's mind to figure out what he thinks and ultimately the whole plan. He's a reporter who has found out Alex has been working under cover as an M16 agent, and he wants to tell the world. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. He uses them so effectively that made readers stop and think before continue on reading all the while bombard with words that made readers feel like they are in the shotgun position along with Alex.

I've been reading them for 2 years ever since a librarian recommended his first story in the series. Kidnapped and flown off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. When Alex leaves shortly afterwards in the company of his friend and her father, their car suffers an 'accident' which is nearly fatal. In his 8th outing, Alex begins the book in Scotland where he is vacationing with the Pleasures and attends a New Years Eve party where he meets his new adversary, the Reverend Desmond McCain, a rich philanthropist whom he beats in a poker game in true James Bond style and in true Alex Rider style he ends up welcoming the New Year not by enjoying the fireworks but once again working against time and the elements to save himself and Sabina and her father from an icy grave. The journalist gets a taste of what life would be like if he ever mentioned the name Alex Rider again.

Bad guy wants to know how much Mi6 knows about his dastardly scheme, (wasting quite a long time doing it, I might add) and this is how Alex ended up hanging on to the handles of a pole with 2 or 3 hungry crocodiles snapping at his buttocks. I gathered that he had been shot in the past, at Liverpool Street station, and although there is a token effort at showing he still has some reaction when he has to go there again, he doesn't appear to suffer any qualms from killing a number of men in this book, even though it is in self defence. But the only reason I didn't give this five stars is because it doesn't make sense why the villain didn't kill him before it was too late (he had a thousand chances). However, throughout the Alex Rider series, I didn't really like the ideas that at some point in the story, the villain will eventually reveal their plans.Once again Alex is faced with some rich maniac who has a plan to kill millions of innocent people and all that stands in the way of his plans is Alex Ryer ! An engineering technician, Ravi Chandra, plants a bomb in the nuclear reactor of the Jowada Nuclear Power Station in India, after being persuaded to do so by a European man who promises him a lot of rewards. Alex uses his karate skills to defend himself from the men and leaves, unaware that his movements are being tracked. It seemed like there was no character development or anything, really - but I guess it was an okay quick read, and there were some awesome stunt!