The book that I read this six weeks is called Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz.  The first copyright date of this book is in 2011.  This book is a spy book with a lot of action and a little bit of drama.  The general subject matter of this book is about a 15 year old kid named Alex trying to save the world or a big disaster.  Some important information that you I should give you before I continue is that Alex is a spy that mainly works for MI6.  He has gone a lot of missions before this so this won't be new to him and he has a house keeper named Jack. Another important piece of information that you should know is that Scorpia is a terrorist organization made up of rich people and they really do not like Alex. This book is separated into two parts but the second part is the most important so that's what I'll mainly be talking about.  The first part is about Scorpia and how they are going to steal the Elgin marbles and return them to there home country, Greece and how they are going to kill the secretary of state.  The second part in the beginning Alex gets shot at by a sniper then MI6 send him to Cairo where he'll be safe but he just has to spy on this guy named Erik Gunter.  Then in the middle he gets caught by Scorpia and he has to watch he housekeeper die trying to escape.  Then in the end he escapes from Scorpia and stops them from shooting the U.S. secretary and he destroys there whole plan.  The overall theme of this book is enjoy what you have while you have it because it never last forever.

          In the first part of the story a guy from scorpia goes and meets with this other guy from Greece and he tells him that he wants the Elgin marbles returned to Greece there home town.  Then after that Scorpia starts working on there plan to do that which involves killing the U.S. secretary and blaming it on Alex.  In the exposition of the second part Alex almost gets killed by the sniper and for his safety they send him to Cairo but on one condition and that condition is he has to spy on this guy named Erik Gunter.  In the rising action there's a part where while following Erik Gunter onto a floating mall, the mall blows up and starts to sink and then he gets arrested by the CIA and then he tells them most of what has happened to him.  After that he and Jack get captured by Scorpia and they get sent to one of Scorpias remote bases out in the desert.  After a little while of being there Alex has to watch Jack die trying to escape.  The climax of the story is when Alex escapes from Scorpia and stops the sniper from shooting U.S. secretary.  The falling action is when Alex and a few other special operation forces take down the scorpia fort and they kill a executive board member of Scorpia.  The resolution of the strory is that all of \Scorpias plan to bring the Elgin marbles back to Greece failed.  Also since Alexs housekeeper died he has no one else to live with so his girlfriend's parents in America come and Adopt him.  The intended audience for this book are for people who like a lot of action some drama.  The general genre of this book is fantasy fiction and adventure.  The author kept me interested in this book because it had a lot of details while making it really suspenseful at the same time.  The authors style is having a lot of action in his books and I think his style is really effective for his audience. 
          The book affected me because I used to think spying would be really fun but after reading this and seeing what could happen to you I don't want to be a spy anymore.  I did not change any ideas I held with it.  This book brought up memories of the other books I have read of the Alex Rider series and other books Anthony Horowitz has wrote.  Also it brings up memories up the I'm Number Four series also.
          I really loved all the detail he put into this book and how he made the book very suspenseful.  I recommend this book to people who like books that are violent and really suspenseful.

Andrew Butler
  12/18/13
Rating **** 4/5