Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz

Oct 2005 · Alex Rider Adventure Book 5 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Simon Prebble

About this audiobook

Teenaged British spy Alex Rider has done more than his share to protect the world from dangerous criminals. Whatever the menace, he has always risen to the occasion when his mettle was tested. But everything changes when he is forced to confront the legacy of the father he never knew.
Scorpia is the world’s deadliest terrorist organization—and it turns out Alex’s father may have been one of their most lethal assassins. Now Scorpia wants Alex on their team, and they weave a cunning web of lies that convinces the young hero he’s fighting on the wrong side. Assigned to wipe
out his old supervisor, Alex travels down a dark path that may destroy him.
“... will leave teens clamoring for the rest of the series. One book, and they’ll be hooked.”—Booklist

About the author

Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series. The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014.