Snakehead: book 7 Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horrowitz
About the Book
Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover - this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service - on a mission to infiltrate the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by the shadows of his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one he can trust - and this time he needs all his wits to survive…
About the Author
Anthony Horowitz is a phenomenally successful, popular and prolific children’s writer, whose books now sell in more than a dozen countries around the world. Born in North London he attended Orley Farm Prep School. Then he attended Rugby School and he graduated from York University. He is best known as the creator of the Alex Rider series, which has sold over nine million copies worldwide, but he had his first book, "Enter Frederick K Bower", published when he was only 23. He has won numerous prizes for his books which include 2005 British Book Awards Red House Children’s Book of the Year Award for" Ark Angel" and the 2003 Red House Children’s Book Award for "Skeleton Key". His other books include the Diamond Brothers series, a spoof about the world’s worst detectives and his supernatural thrillers, The Power of Five. Anthony also writes extensively for film and television with his credits including Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s War and the Stormbreaker movie.
10 Things you didn't know about Anthony Horowitz
1. Anthony began writing because he wanted to be like Tintin.
2. He has travelled to all the places in the Tintin books (except the moon).
3. Snatchmore Hall (in The Switch) is based on the house where Anthony lived as a child. He had a nanny, two cooks, two gardens, a chauffeur … and he hated it.
4. He was sent to a revolting boarding school, Orley Farm, in north London. The headmaster and his wife featured by name in one of his TV episodes. He depicted them as mad Nazis!
5. He takes research for his books very seriously. He has walked across the Andes and visited forbidden criminal enclaves in Hong Kong. For Point Blanc, he climbed – and operated – a 150m crane opposite the Houses of Parliament.
6. He got married in Hong Kong. He didn’t understand the ceremony because it was in Chinese.
7. He spent a year working as a cowboy in Australia. This was for fun – not for a book.
8. His passion is scuba-diving. He has dived all over the world, including Sipadan in the South China Sea, where he saw hammerhead sharks.
9. He has a chocolate-coloured labrador called Lucky. Lucky by name, but not by nature – the dog has been run over three times!
10. He is a major film fan and goes to the cinema three or four times a week. His favourite film is The Third Man. He is also a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s mysteries.
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