Alex Rider Adventures: Scorpia, Book 5
By Anthony Horowitz
This book is about Alex Rider and his quest to find his destiny, as Yassan Gregoriovich said right before he died. Right before his tragic on Airforce One he told Alex that he had known his father before he died, and he was also a contract killer. “Find Scorpia and your destiny” and Alex went to
He does find Scorpia, they encourage him to join them. They tell him that M16 was the one that killed his father and the women that he thought was on his side was the one that gave the order. And out of his anger he does turning against M16. He goes to a school again, but instead of public school and learning about math he goes to a private island to learn the art of . The first victim that was chosen was Mrs. Jones, the first deputy of M16, but he got caught.
He turned double agent for M16 after they convinced him that Scorpia was the bad guys again. Now he’s switched sides twice. His new mission is to shut down “Invisible Sword” the thing that can kill on control, and might release a poison into thousands of kids . That is very hard for him since he really doesn’t know what he wanted to know in the first place, who is his father?
It was Mrs. Jones that told him in the end. It turns out that what he learned from Scorpia was all staged. John Rider, just like his son had been a double agent for M16. But in doing so was also thought to be one of Scorpia’s best operatives. In the end when they pulled him out they had to stage his capture and , otherwise Scorpia would never had let them live.
He then went back to his family. But sadly the fraud was found out just a couple years later. And there was a planted in the plane that would have taken him to a relaxing vacation. So that was the real life and of Alex’s parents that he’d never known about. Alex could live peacefully after that, knowing that his father wasn’t a horrible contract killer but a good man that saved many lives.
