

They strike a deal with Alex: They’ll enroll him in the Cairo International College of Arts and Education in Egypt so he can spy on the school’s head of security who is suspected of plotting a high-profile kidnapping, while they search for Alex’s attackers in London. Jones, the directors of MI6.Īs it turns out, MI6 needs the help of the young spy. To make matters worse, the only people he knows to turn to for help are the last he wants to see – Alan Blunt and Mrs.

But all that comes to a screeching halt when bullets begin flying at Alex while he’s at school one day.

He’s been able to live a normal life – waking up late for school, not cleaning his room, playing soccer with friends, and auditioning for the school play. Four months have passed since he battled the madman in Africa, and in those four months, he hasn’t heard so much as a peep from MI6. The danger is greater, the stakes higher, the villains deadlier, as Alex once again goes up against Scorpia, the terrorist organization that he’s fought and barely defeated twice before.Īlex Rider, fifteen-year-old British spy, thought he had left the world of espionage and MI6 (the British equivalent of the CIA) behind when he foiled Desmond McCain, yet another villain bent on world devastation. After eight dangerous and daring missions, the teen spy has come to his last. Action and adventure abound in this ninth and final installment of Anthony Horowitz’s thrilling Alex Rider series.
