Alex Rider #5: Scorpia Award-winning by Anthony Horowitz (author)

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

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. Spidergirl
   on 9 March 2014

   Scary scorpion story

   5 out of 5

2. alibaba4
   on 8 March 2014

   Amazing book

   5 out of 5

3. AngelofDeath
   on 7 March 2014

   This book is as amazing as the rest of the series but it is full of suspense as Alex gets to know the truth about his father and how he was actually a MI6 agent.

4. books2000
   on 6 March 2014

   its good

5. Nashdasher
   on 7 March 2013

   I love this Alex Rider book. Full of suspense and action

   5 out of 5

6. ninjastickman
   on 5 March 2013

   This is a brilliant book. Mrs.Rothman, the head of scorpia, is out to get London school children with a deadly virus!

   5 out of 5

7. chloewhite33
   on 4 March 2013

   Amazing this book is full of mystery.

8. jenko006
   on 13 November 2012

   I DESPETTLY WANT THIS BOOK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD!

9. dashernasher
   on 5 March 2012

   this is the book the bbok that the series is based around. very good.

10. Funkyboy9
    on 3 March 2011

    At the end of Eagle strike the ruthless assasain Yassen Gregovitch gives Alex a vital piece of information. He tells him to go to Venice and find Scorpia. But Alex is faced with a dilema who or what is Scorpia? With more twists and turns than a snake with an ending that is COMPLETLY unexpected.

    5 out of 5

11. Missymessy
    on 27 February 2011

    I love all the anger in Alex in this book, he really makes you think what is he going to do next. His temper seemed to make him unpredictable and that just made the book much more gripping. Really enjoyed reading the book and the fact that Alex was turning on MI6 just made it even more ingenious! Loved it!

    5 out of 5

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