Scorpia Rising (Alex Rider)
Anthony Horowitz
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 0142419850
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to con Alex into turning traitor, and they just keep coming back with more power. Now the world's most dangerous terrorist organization is playing with fire in the world's most combustible land: the Middle East. No one knows Scorpia like Alex. And no one knows how best to get to Alex like Scorpia. Until now.
his way to a meeting, was beyond belief. Zeljan Kurst was not aware that he was surrounded. He had no idea that his flight plan had been leaked by one of his own people in return for a complete change of identity and a new life in Panama. But even so, he was uneasy. Everything had told him that he shouldn’t be here. When the invitation had first arrived on his desk, delivered by a series of middlemen and traveling halfway around the world and back again, he had thought about refusing. He was
drop to certain death were straight ahead. Julius wrenched the wheel to the right. The driver of the nearest jeep saw the Suzuki leave the road, weaving across a patch of scrubland toward a dilapidated barn. The boy was out of control. He tried to steer the car back onto the track but instead smashed straight into the barn door, disappearing in a blast of shattering wood. For the next few seconds, the car was out of sight, inside the barn, but then it reappeared, breaking through the other side,
Scorpia would not have risked the freedom of its chief executive, even for a mil ion dol ars, and its agents surrounded him on al sides. As the other MI6 agents closed in from every direction, stil unsure what had happened but knowing that al the rules had changed, they were met by a hail of machine-gun fire. The bearded student who had been examining the postcards had reached into his backpack and drawn out a miniature machine gun with folding shoulder stock and was spraying the hal with bul
to take things easy here. We don’t like bul ies and we don’t like show-offs, but you don’t look like either, so I’m sure you’l fit in fine. If you have any problems, my office is always open. Every new kid who comes here gets a mentor. Yours is waiting outside. Her name is Gabriel a and I’m sure the two of you wil get along. Good luck. I’l see you around.” Gabriel a was sixteen and, it turned out, the daughter of the Italian ambassador in Cairo. She had been at the school for three years
convicted war criminal, it was better not to have any name at al . In the end, he had jumbled up letters from his name and come up with Razim—which was how he was known to his friends in Scorpia. And in truth, he had no other friends. He was unmarried. Sometimes he would spend a whole month without speaking to anyone at al . But Razim didn’t mind. In fact, he preferred it that way. Razim was not an Egyptian. He had been born forty-five years ago in the town of Tikrit, in Iraq. His father was a