Alex Rider Series: Snakehead By: Anthony Horowitz

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     The book Alex Rider: Snakehead is my favorite book from the Alex Rider Series. Anthony Horowitz, the author, does an excellent job filling in the gaps that many authors fail to do. He fills the gaps with action. The little details that we take for granted turn out to be huge factors later on in the book. These are some of the things that Anthony Horowitz include in his books.
     Snakehead is a very interesting book. The tides turn very quickly and you never know when they will turn on you. One example of this is when Alex meets his godfather, Ash. Alex is very eager to meet him because Ash is the one who knows who killed Alex's parents. In the book, Alex is told that he will go into a secret mission with Ash. While acting as a victim of human trafficking, Alex loses touch with Ash. Snakehead is the organization that smuggles humans into Australia from all around the world. While on the mission, Ash gets caught and held prisoner. When Alex finds out that Ash was caught, he tells MI6 (the British version of the CIA) about the situation. MI6 comes and picks him up and then they decide to launch a mission to recover Ash. But what no one knows is that Ash, who is thought to be a retired MI6 agent, is actually working with Snakehead. When Alex meets Ash, he is in bad shape. He is coughing blood and covered in bruises. That's when the Snakehead commander tells Ash to tell Alex the truth. So Ash tells Alex everything about his parents and how they died. But the most startling fact about the explanation was that fact that Ash was the one to kill his parents. When Ash wanted to join Snakehead, he had to prove his loyalty. So Ash decided to kill Alex's parents. The news that Alex received knocked the wind out of him. He felt a sudden mix of anger and sadness. The book is so well described that the reader can feel the same emotions as Alex. With that the book ends and Alex continues on with his life. 
     These are some examples of the sudden change in events in the Alex Rider Series. Of course there are so much more but this book is where I felt the most emotion so I decided to do a summary about it. Anthony Horowitz is a great author. He is one of only the handful of people who really understand how to describe scenes and characters in a book. His books entertain the reader and I hope he writes more novels to read.