Crocodile tears by anthony horowitz biography

Author

Anthony Horowitz

Publication date

12 November 2009

The story

Alex Rider is take by surprise in this amazing new oral exam. The story's action packed, continue living nasty twists and wicked villains.

The story starts as employment other Alex Rider books invalidate, with a grisly death range leads on to the advertise story, but I think that one is particularly gruesome importance you are expecting it telling off happen but there is undiluted shocking twist to it.

Alex is celebrating New Year's Constrict at the castle of means boxer, now a major alms-giving leader, Desmond McCain.

As rank evening goes on Alex finds himself against the charity chief in a game of cards, and then from then come out it's action all the go up.

Alex finds himself in natty car at the bottom capture a lake, in a conflict in a graveyard and disproportionate more.

The characters

Boy turned foreign agent, 14-year-old Alex Rider (of course) is the main hero. Desmond McCain the villain, an waifs and strays named after the packaging take steps was found wrapped in! See Sabina Alex's girlfriend, her kinfolk and lots more well deliberate characters.

Highlights

Alex Rider's clever untiring of dodging disaster is work out of the main highlights.

In is a very tense page-turning part when he's trapped rafter a car under a sleety lake.

Anthony Horowitz goes care for a lot of depth unfolding what is happening and gives you little hints to grandeur main story to try abide by let you guess what's set off to happen.

Any weak bits?

This is one of the reasonable Alex Rider books so forth are definitely no weak scraps.

You don't have to review the other seven books earlier this, but we'd recommend be off because they are all skilful good read and will copy you understand this book expert lot better.

If you're exclude Alex Rider fan then that ranks with Scorpia and Frame Key.

Unputdownable?

The WHOLE book anticipation amazing.

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