Eagle Strike, Anthony Horowitz
Eagle Strike, Anthony Horowitz
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Eagle Strike

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 6 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/05/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old secret agent Alex Rider is on holiday in southern France with his friend Sabina and her parents. Everything seems perfect, until ruthless assassin Yassen Gregorovich arrives. Shortly after, Sabina’s father is nearly killed in a devastating explosion.

It turns out Sabina’s father was writing a story about legendary pop star and humanitarian Sir Damian Cray. Cray has donated millions to charity, is a vegetarian, and insists his concert tickets be printed on recycled paper. A living saint in the eyes of the adoring public, he
claims to want to save the world. But Alex believes he knows the real truth—it’s the world that needs saving from Cray.

About Anthony Horowitz

English born author, Anthony Horowitz, is a novelist and screenwriter specializing in mystery and suspense genres. He was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, and his family was of the Jewish faith. He was a rather unhappy child, being overweight, and spent much of his youth reading many books from his father's library. It is no surprise that he started writing at the age of 8 or nine years old. He used books to escape the reality of being pretty sedentary, with no talent or physique for participating in sports. He was an author in the making.

Horowitz juggles his interests among writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. His works include over 40 books, including a teen spy thriller, the Alex Rider series. He is estimated to have sold 19 million copies worldwide. A few of his other works include: Power of Five series (including the conclusion novel, Oblivion), two Sherlock Holmes novels.......The House of Silk and Moriarty, and a new James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis.

Horowirz also created and wrote some of the most popular television series in the UK. Among the series are: Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Collision, Injustice, and New Blood.

Horowitz joined the Home Start group, in Suffolk, to support those working with families across the county who are facing challenges such as mental health issues, terminal illness, isolation, domestic abuse, poverty and many other problems. He has been quoted as saying.......Charity begins at Home Start.

Horowitz lives in Central London with his wife, Jill Green, (who produced his film Foyle's War), and their two sons. He considers himself a Conservative, and has specific ideas about today's political climate. He has been very critical of the social phenomenon of cancel culture and "mobbing" of figures for expressing their personal opinions. He says that people are so quick to want to cause total loss for anyone who disagrees with them. Total loss to the point of death threats, and hoping they lose their entire means to survive and care for their families. The political discourses are sadly used as reasons to hate. Horowitz is opposed to hatred of any sort.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on November 30, 2022

I'm short on time today, but, this was a fun action/adventure novel.......more

Goodreads review by Luisa on November 07, 2022

Alex Rider isn't just any fourteen-year-old. He's mentally quick, knows self defense and adheres to a strong code of justice. Give him some gadgets and he'd make the perfect spy. After all, who would suspect a kid? And that's why MI6 wants him so badly! The series isn't just made up of individual adv......more

Goodreads review by Yigal on April 03, 2019

i had to see what it is all about a thriller for youngsters. so i read it. it is well written.nice, sharp, a lot of great imegination but will i read another one. no.......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on December 27, 2017

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn’t, and so had cut the world down to his own size. I was not expecting the huge twist in this book and this has opened up a whole new range of ideas that i have in my head and i can't wait to see were this story goes. Plot: As i sai......more

Goodreads review by AziaMinor on April 16, 2022

Overall Rating : B+ "None of my business. That was what Alex had thought. This was the result." Alex Rider back again, this time without the support of MI6 behind him to prove what everybody knows to be true : that Popstars are secretly dangerous psychopaths bent on ruling the world. I will say this bo......more