Investigating, he comes across a mock-up of a dead African village (which is later revealed to be where McCain and co.

Alex has been through so much in a year and i feel so bad for this kid because he keeps getting brought back into this world and after telling himself again and again. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. The journalist has the cheek to pop up at his house, while he’s having dinner, and offer to do an expose, and cut him a 50-50 deal from whatever he makes. I liked all of Alex's near-death experiences in this volume, particularly because it would be SUPER hard to survive them. I'd rid myself of the Alex Rider series at last, and Anthony Horowitz had said that Snakehead would be his last, and it ended satisfactorily.

They make a deal with him, if he hacks into the computer of a man that works for Greenfields, then it will be as if Harry Bulman never existed.

When Alex leaves shortly afterwards in the company of his friend and her father, their car suffers an 'accident' which is nearly fatal. Anthony Horrowitz also loves to use syntax throughout his book to excite and rush readers which is crucial to a book like this such as the quote, "If he fell!Alex gets suspended from school after he comes back onto the bus looking like he's just been through a war (the excuse given is that he fell out of the emergency exit. Forced to ask MI6 for protection, Alex finds himself being manipulated in a deadly game that could lead to the destruction of an entire East African country. but alas, Im stuck with a different plot but the same exact concept as most of the books in this series. But a simple card game between them rapidly leads to a duel to the death – one that could result in the destruction of an entire country. Even though they are marketed as YA (and I am a little bit older than that, perhaps even considered OA), they are a delight to read.