Product Description

From Cornwall to Cuba, Venice to France, Alex Rider has travelled far and wide as a spy for MI6, facing danger and death at every turn. But in his last mission, fighting the criminal organization, Scorpia, Alex appeared to have finally met his match. In the thrilling sequel to "Scorpia", find out the answer to the question on everyone's lips - "Will Alex Rider live to fight another day?"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2924 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 343 pages

About the Author
Anthony Horowitz is a popular and prolific children's writer, whose books now sell in more than a dozen countries around the world. He has won numerous prizes for his books which include "Point Blanc" (shortlisted for the 2001 Children's Book Award), "Skeleton Key" (Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award) and "Scorpia". Anthony also writes extensively for TV. He lives in north London.

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Before you read the review of ARK ANGEL, you need to take into account that this is the sixth book in the engaging, entertaining, action-packed adventure series starring Alex Rider. If you haven't read the first five books in the series, you'll probably want to do that before you pick up ARK ANGEL. Although it can stand on its own, you'll feel more in the loop by reading the previous books first.

ARK ANGEL picks up immediately where SCORPIA, book five, left off. At the end of that book, we saw Alex Rider on the ground, wounded by a sniper's bullet. For those who thought that Anthony Horowitz was planning to kill off our favorite young MI6 agent, please be assured that ARK ANGEL does not in any way imply dead. Alex is alive and relatively well, recuperating in an exclusive private hospital in London. The sniper's bullet missed his heart, instead bouncing off a rib and exiting out his arm. Now, as he's recovering in posh room nine of the hospital, he becomes friends with Paul. The same Paul that turns out to be the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world.

When Alex saves Paul during a kidnapping attempt, Nikolai invites Alex to finish his recuperation at his estate. Alex soon wonders at the wisdom of being in Drevin's company, however, when he learns that an eco-terrorist group known as Force Three has threatened not only the Drevin family, but the safety of the entire world.

Nikolai Drevin's latest project, Ark Angel, is in full swing. Designed to become the first ultimate luxury hotel in outer space, it contains everything the world's richest people could want. It's also, at least according to Force Three, a threat to the environment of Earth as we know it. Now the members of the terrorist group are out to stop Ark Angel from ever opening, and they'll do anything--and everything--they can to see their mission come to completion. Even if it means hurtling the hotel back through the atmosphere and onto Earth's surface.

ARK ANGEL is another action-adventure read that will keep you turning pages right through to the end. Alex Rider has come a long way since the fourteen-year old boy roped into complying with MI6, but there's part of him that's still determined to leave the spy organization for good. Yet he knows that his skills are needed, and the unending action of ARK ANGEL show in detail why that is. You won't go wrong with any of the books in the Alex Rider series, and I can say that I'm excited about the opening of the movie STORMBREAKER, the first Alex Rider adventure, which is in development now.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

Ark Angel-bk. 6
Alex Rider didn't die when he was shot by a Scorpia gunman in the last chapter of the previous book. The book thrusts you right into the world of Alex Rider, for the 6th time. The world of deceptions, anger, revenge and war. The world where a schoolboy is reluctant to become a spy, instead of the other way around. As said at the end of book two, by Alan Blunt, Head of the MI6, "Most schoolboys dream to become spies. With Alex, we have a spy who dreams to be an ordinary schoolboy." Alex did not choose to become a spy; he was blackmailed and forced in the first book (Stormbreaker) to work for the MI6.

Back to Ark Angel: Ark angel was Alex RIders 6th adventure, but first one yet to be because of him, not because of Alan Blunt and his slightly less blunt assistant. This book picks up a little after Alex Rider was shot in Scorpia, the previous adventure, by a Scorpia gunman. Alex rider throws himself in the way of would-be kidnappers of Paul Drevin, the rich son of the Russian millionaire, Nikolei Drevin. Later in the book, Alex finds out the truth about Nikolei Drevin and has to stop him from destoying the world.But how? Buy the book and find out! (Hmmmm........Does this sound familiar? It should because this kind of plot was in bk.3, bk.4, and bk. 5)

Ark Angel is a slightly slower-paced book than the fast-paced Eagle Strike, and the simply rocket-paced Scorpia. There is still Mr. Smithers, thank goodness, as he along with his gadgets, are one of the funniest things in the series. These are weird gadgets (I won't mention any of the gadgets in Ark Angel, as not to spoil the laughs!) like exploding chewing gum, Gameboy games with functions like a smoke grenade, Nuclear wave detector, and so on. The CIA have made another name for themselves, this time in New York (people who have read Skeleton Key should remember Centurion International Advertising).

All in all, Alex Rider is in for another hair-raising adventure in Ark Angel, book 6 of the series (presumably called Alex Rider, but not confirmed). Great book, okay storyline, but the laughs and jokes far make up for the slower-paced storytelling and the ordinary storyline. Alex Rider fans: GET THIS RIGHT NOW, if you have'nt done so already, but for people new to the series, start at Stormbreaker.

Ark Angel hits the road and alex is hit by a sniper...
Alex rider is in hospital after being shot by a sniper. He meats paul who is also in hospital and this is the beginig of his 6th adventure.

Paul's dad (Nikoleai Drevin) is the biggest criminal in the world, and that night he finds some more crooks are on the lose, force three. MI6 and CIA send Alex on a mission to find out more and alex soon finds the connectoin with force three and Nikoleia Drevin. But then Alex finds out a worse plan something that could change the world for ever.....

Read on to find suspence and danger. And thats just the next page. prepear for this action packed, absoloutly crazy book! IT DEFINETLY IS A BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ!

Also read the other Alex Rider books for more adventures!!