Showing posts with label author Horowitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label author Horowitz. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Eagle Strike

Hororwitz, Anthony

Genre: spy

Series: Alex Rider

This is book 4 in the series.


Sir Damian Cray is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the world's most famouspop star. But still it's not enough. He needs more if he is to save the world. Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that it's the world that needs saving from Sir Damian Cray. Underneath the luster of glamour and fame lies a twisted mind, ready to sacrifice the world for his beliefs. But in the past, Alex has always had the backing of the government. This time, he's on his own. Can one teenager convince the world that the most popular man on earth is a madman bent on destruction-before time runs out?

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Skeleton Key

Horowitz, Anthony

Genre: spy

Series: Alex Rider

This is book 3 of the series.

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first... Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia. Come along for the thrilling ride of a lifetime.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Stormbreaker

Horowitz, Anthony


Stormbreaker

Genre: action, spy

Series: Alex Rider

This is book 1 of the series.

The plane was facing down the runway. Its propelers were at full speed. Alex wrenched the gear into first, released the hand brake, and the gunner forward, shooting over the drive and onto the grass, heading for the airship. At the same time therewas a chatter of machiene gun fire. He yanked down on the steiring wheel and twisted away as his wing mirror exploded and a spray of bullets slammed into the winshield and door. The two cars he had seen coming up behind him. Each of them had a guard in the backseat, leaning out of the window, firing at him. And they were geting closer.







Monday, May 20, 2013

Ark Angel

Horowitz, Anthony


Ark Angel

Genre: spy, action

Series: Alex Rider


This is book 6 in the series



The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way.

When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop them. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angel, the first luxury hotel in outer space, is a danger to the environment.

Alex returns to MI6 and soon discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions of innocent people...unless Alex can stop them.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Stormbreaker

Horowitz, Anthony
Johnston, Antony

Stormbreaker: the Graphic Novel

Genre: comic book, action

Series: Alex Rider


This is book one in the series.


RECRUITED!

They told him his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6-Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of can and mouse, with no way out.