Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears Award-winning author by Anthony Horowitz (author)

Crocodile Tears

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The stonking new Alex Rider blockbuster. Targeted by a hitman and hounded by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn’t come cheap. They want Alex to spy on a GM crop plant with sinister secret connections. And when Alex runs into Desmond Cain, a high-profile charity organiser, Cain realises that Alex is onto his real plans for the money he’s raising. Kidnapped and held hostage in Africa, Alex learns the full horror of Cain’s plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. But when getting word to MI6 goes terribly wrong, Alex must also stop his own side before they unwittingly trigger the death of a whole nation…

“Thriller writing at its highest level, with ingenious plots and gadgets” Times Online

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Series

Alex Rider

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406327403

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  • 416 pages

Condition

New

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Alex Rider Alex Rider

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

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Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

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  1. John Pack
    on 20 January 2010

    Review of Crocodile Tears

    Crocodile tears is a very excellent book and is highly explosive. I wouldn't describe this book as Alex Rider's most dangerous mission, yet this book keeps you intrigued right from the very start. From the very first chapter, you want to read on to find out why the person in the first chapter just commited what he did. Later in the book, it all becomes clear and you go, "Ahh!" In this book, the story includes very many facts about GM crops and how they are made and other facts about various subjects. I'm sorry, though, Anthony Horowitz, but the Cherub series is better all round.
    Lately I have been reading the Andy McNab series for children and they are very factual and very educational, and also the storylines are unexpectant, whereas the Alex Rider series are always going to end in the same way. The book makes out that Alex Rider is invincible, if you want a little hint there. The story endings are a little unexpectant, but you never expect one of the main characters to get killed, always the bad guys. JP x

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