Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz
Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz
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Scorpia Rising

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/29/2011


Synopsis

In his time as a British spy, Alex Rider has taken on countless enemies. While he’s never come away unscathed, he’s always completed his missions. But there is one enemy that just won’t stay down, the terrorist organization that murdered his parents and forever changed Alex’s life: Scorpia.

Back and more powerful than ever, Scorpia has its sights set on the turbulent Middle East, and Alex must risk his life in one of the most volatile regions in the world. His mission? Put Scorpia out of business.

Permanently.

But this may be the one mission Alex won’t be coming home from. You’ve been hoping this day would never come, but you won’t be able to tear yourself away from the final chapter in this international #1 bestselling series.

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 Jonathan on March 23, 2012

In my opinion Scorpia Rising may be the best novel in a long and excellent series. The gadgetry has always been well thought out, the twists and the suspense is brilliant and the emotional aspects of the series is astounding. To convincingly portray how a teenage kid abused by so many people into be......more

Goodreads review by Emma on March 31, 2019

At time of publication, this was billed as the final Alex Rider novel and it seems like it would have been a fittung conclusion to the teenage spy's stort. This time around, the novel had an unusual start as it dedicated a lot of time to the antagonists' perspectives. I really enjoyed this change to......more

Goodreads review by Tanner on December 16, 2013

This novel starts with Zeljan Kurst, leader of Scorpia, a international terrorist organization,being asked by Yannis Ariston Xenopolos, a Greek billionaire with cancer, to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. He is promised [Euro|€]40 million, half in advance. MI6 has found out about the visit and t......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on April 22, 2019

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away. This has to be my favourite Alex Rider book from the entire series thus far it was just brilliant and i am still trying to recover from what i learnt from this book. Plot: Alex is once again dragged into MI6 mess and the spy world once a......more

Goodreads review by JohnP on October 29, 2011

I knew I was in trouble when the book cover announced that this was “The Final Mission”..! This book was very different from all the others in the series. For starters, the plot had a LOT of background and setup that went on. We don’t even SEE Alex Rider until the book is HALF over. I think that was......more