Scorpia: An Alex Rider Graphic Novel - Softcover

Horowitz, Anthony; Johnston, Antony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763692573 ISBN 13: 9780763692575

Publisher: Candlewick, 2017

Synopsis

Teen superspy Alex Rider faces a pop star bent on world destruction and a lethal group of assassins in graphic novel adaptations of two of his thrilling adventures.

After learning a terrible secret about his father, teen spy Alex Rider travels to Venice to uncover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia. When he agrees to train as an assassin and is given a target that he knows well, Alex must make a choice: work with MI6 once more or betray everything he believes in.

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Review:

Fans of the Alex Rider Adventures will not be disappointed by the slam-bang action in this fifth book in the spy thriller series, although the ending may leave them feeling a bit dismayed. A parachute jump onto the roof of a super-secure pharmaceutical complex, a desperate escape from a water-filled cellar under the canals of Venice, elegant and witty encounters with mega-criminals bent on death -- it's all here, and Alex, still 14-years old, comes out ahead every time in spite of the heavy odds against him. "Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny," Alex was told by a dying man at the end of the previous book, Eagle Strike. And so we find him; in Venice, with his friend Tom, looking for clues to his father's identity and death. Was he an agent of M16, the secret world organization that has used Alex before? Or was he a tool of Scorpia, the powerful international criminal agency that specializes in sabotage, corruption, intelligence, and assassination? And which are the bad guys? Alex loses track as he is recruited by the beautiful and deadly Julia Rothman, one of the nine executives of Scorpia, to be trained at their Venetian island school for assassins and to take part in a plot to kill thousands of 12 and 13-year-olds in England. Caught between shifting allegiances and different versions of his father's life and death, Alex outwits and outfights everybody as the plot rockets along to a smash finish that will leave readers breathless and shocked. (Ages 10-14) --Patty Campbell

About the Author:

Anthony Horowitz is the author of the best-selling Alex Rider series in addition to adult novels about Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. In 2014 he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Literature. Anthony Horowitz lives in London.

Antony Johnston is the author of many comics and graphic novels, including stories about Daredevil and Wolverine. He lives in the northwest of England.

Emma Vieceli is a comic artist whose work includes manga adaptations of Shakespeare among many other graphic novels. She lives in Cambridge, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0763692573
• ISBN 13: 9780763692575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Vieceli Emma, Brown Kate