Scorpia

I've recently read a book called Scorpia and I'm going to give a quick summary and review of the book. Scorpia is about a terrorist organization which is called Scorpia who are working for a man that wants to get rid of the alliance between America and Britain. He's going to do this by having them send in a list of ridiculous requests to America such as they have to have no president and have to get rid of their military and they know that they'll never meet the requirements and they'll inflict the punishment on Britain. The punishment for them not meeting the requirements is that they'll kill tons of British school kids with a weapon called invisible sword. Invisible sword is that when the kids get their shots they have tiny gold spheres in them which have small amounts of cyanide in them so small that nobody could see them. The gold balls are unaffective if they just sit there but they are going to use sattelites to melt them and that will put a small amount of cyanide into their heart's, enough to kill them. Alex Rider is a spy who works for an organization called M-16. He goes to find out what Scorpia's about (this is before they know about Scorpia's plan) by going to the leader fo Scorpia's birthday party. He almost gets himself killed because he asks too many questions. One of the assasins working for him puts him in a room right near a canal which is due to flood. He ends up escaping through a narrow hole but he barely lives. This puts him against Scorpia right away but he is scheduled for a meeting with the leader who plans on trying to get him on their side. She shows Alex what M-16 did to his dad (they killed him) which gets Alex on Scorpia's side. He gets right to training on a remote island learning how to be an assasin. His first mission is to kill one of the leader's of M-16. She's really heavily guarded and he has to use a lot of clever tricks and gadgets to finally get to her but eventually he does and he shoots. She was being protected by an invisible barrier and he ends up setting off alarms and being captured. He's not really a killer because at the last minute when he was about to shoot, he had aimed the gun above her head. He then learns that his dad was an evil man and teams up against Scorpia again. He goes undercover and ends up finding out about invisible sword. They planned on setting off a hot air balloon which carried the sattelites that were going to melt the gold balls and Alex had to stop it. They ended up shooting it off and Alex grabbed onto a rope and pulled himself indide of it. Nile, the guy that tried to kill him earlier, tried to catch him and kill him but fell and died. Alex disabled the balloon and took an emergency parachute to the ground. All was well and nobody died. Since this was a relatively short summary I left out tons of details about the book and it's a lot better than I make it sound. I would deffinately recommend it and look forward to reading more from the Alex Rider series.