Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #632 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

The Times
Horowitz will grip you with suspense, daring and cheek-and that's just the first page!...Prepare for action scenes as fast as a movie.

The Guardian
Done with enormous style, fun and suspense. Wannabe James Bonds will be completely hooked and eager for more.

Cool Reads website
A hugely entertaining, fast-paced book which deserves more than 5 stars.

Customer Reviews

Worst of the series
It is worth reading only to keep up with the story when reading the series.
The plot is thin and the new characters andespecially the main villian sargeant guy are just annoying.
Good series, just a bad book.

A GOOD BOOK YET IT IS SLIGHTLY UNREALISTIC AT TIMES
I have enjoyed all the books in the alex rider series and i like this book very much. I find the humor fuuny and unlike some of the sences in some of the cherub books it is sutiabal for all ages. My main critisisum of the Alex Rider series is that he does things that are unrealisic of a 15 year old kid with a BMX. Overall a good series but if above the age of 12 i would strongly recommend the cherub books instead as i find they are much more realisic.

A Great Book!
I am going to tell you about an action packed book about a boy called Alex Rider who works for MI5 and he wants to be a normal boy. MI5 sent him to Skeleton Key for a holiday but they lied to him. He gets a fake passport so now one nows who he is and he meets two people called Belinda Troy and Tom Turner who fake that they are his parents. Then they die. They get killed in General Sarov's trap. Then General Sarov catches Alex and askes him to be his son. Alex refuses. Then he finds out that General Sarov is planing to do something bad. I think you should try it. It is very interesting. It includes sharks, assasins and terrorists. There are more books about Alex Rider and you find out how his parents die.