Skeleton+Key

Skeleton Key (Alex Rider, #3) Anthony Horowitz 327 pages Action [|About the book] [|About the Author]

Alex is going to Wimbledon with Sabina Pleasure, who is Alex's girlfriend. They are in vacation, but he is also working for M16. Alex became a target of a Chinese triad gang. He can't work by himself, so the CIA send two people to help Alex. The two people are Tom Turner and Belinda Troy. They are here to investigate General Alexei Sarov. To begin the mission, they need to do scuba-diving to get to his mansion and investigate him. Sarov bought nuclear bombs and things, so CIA want to investigate what he is going to do with them. The CIA agents: Tom & Turner died because of trying to get into security. Alex got caught and reminded Sarov of his son. He wanted to adopt Alex as his son because Alex reminded him as his son who was killed in Afghanistan. Alex knows his plan and tries to call the police, but there isn't any service on his phone. He tries to escape, so he needs to contact the Russians and M16 before Sarov send nuclear bomb to Russia. The Russian army defeated Sarov's men and Sarov committed suicide at the end. He committed suicide mainly because Alex Rider doesn't want to be his son. I really liked this book because it is very fun and interesting to read, especially to the young readers. The book really got me thinking about the general, Alexei Sarov. Even though he was a bad guy at first, I feel sorry when he committed suicide and Alex rejected him to not be his son. I would rate this book 4 out of 5.