Scorpia rising

When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.

Main Author: Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Corporate Authors: Recorded Books, LLC.
Other Authors: Prebble, Simon. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011.
Series: Alex Rider adventure ; 9.
Subjects:
Summary: When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Title from container.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3-6 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
"The final mission"--Container.
Physical Description: 9 sound discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Fiction on compact disc with book.
Audience: 12 years and up.
ISBN: 9781456133641
1456133640
Author Notes: Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series.

The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)