Monday 8 August 2016

3rd in the Alex Rider Series: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

Rating:4.5/5
The book, Skeleton Key, opens with two men, Marc and Carlo and an unnamed pilot, flying to meet with General Alexei Sarov in Cayo Esqueleto (Spanish for "Skeleton Key"), a fictional island just off of Cuba to exchange a kilogram of uranium for money the general has promised them. The two men threaten him to pay more money, so the General kills them both. The CIA get to know about it. After foiling a Triad plot to fix the 2001 Wimbledon tennis tournament by knocking out one of their members with a carbon dioxide tank, Alex is in grave danger of assassination.He is now forced to leave the country. The CIA  sends a "family" with 2 CIA agents and Alex Rider as their "child" to Cuba where the "child" only lives.
What was the General planning to do with the uranium?How do they get spotted? How does Alex survive? 
Read this book to know!

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