Bloggin # once

I just finished a book named Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz. It is book #5 in the Alex Rider series. It is about a teen spy named Alex Rider. In the beginning, Alex was on vacation in Venice with his friend Tom. He is looking for something called Scorpia. It was mentioned to him by a man named Yassen Gregorovich, who said, "Go to Venice, Find Scorpia, and you will find your destiny." Meanwhile, the 9 board members of Scorpia are having a meeting, and one of them wants to retire. The other members send him off with a gift, and when he is in a gondola, he opens it when it is sitting on his knees. He opens it and a bunch of extremely poisonous scorpions come crawling out and sting him everywhere. Then, one day, Alex is just walking around, looking for it with Tom, and he sees a boat with a silver scorpion on the side of it. He chases it and follows it to a house. From a maid, he finds out that there is a masquerade party that night. He sneaks in, and in Mrs. Rothman (board leader of Scorpia)'s office, he is almost attacked by a Siberian Tiger! Nile, who is a member of Scorpia presses a remote, and it is knocked out. Next, he wakes up after Nile knocks him out, and he's in a little cell filling up with water. Once it's waist high, he dives through a loose board on the floor and goes through a well in a J shape. Once he gets to the end of it, there's a grate blocking him. Fortunately, it's rusty and he breaks right through it. He makes it to the surface scratched up, and makes it to the hotel they stay in. Then, he BASE jumps off of a cliff on to the roof of a corporation named Consanto. There, he finds out that people are being poisoned with vaccines. He also sees a man named Dr. Liebermann get killed by Nile. They drive away and the place blows up. Next, Alex meets Mrs. Rothman. She tells him that MI6 killed his father, and she offers him a job, which he accepts. His first Mission is to kill Mrs. Jones, the lady who directed him in MI6. Scorpia sends a letter to MI6 informing them of the power of Invisible Sword. To demonstrate, they tell them that they will kill the English reserve football team as they arrive at London Heathrow Airport without using any weapons. Despite increased security, the team mysteriously dies. Alex sneaks back into England amid the chaos. He then sneaks into Mrs Jones' apartment but intentionally misses Mrs Jones and is arrested by her security guards.

Alan Blunt, head of MI6, takes Alex to a COBRA meeting to figure out what Invisible Sword is and how to stop it. With Alex's help, they determine that Scorpia embedded gold-encased nanoshells into the football players' bloodstream. The nanoshells were hidden in vaccinations and contained cyanide, which were activated by satellite dishes, and when they were activated, the gold wore off because of the frequency they were at and the Cyanide was released into the bloodstream, killing every single one of the players instantly. Scorpia will then kill London's schoolchildren because they had all recently been vaccinated.

Alex agrees to help and pretends to come back to Scorpia. Rothman takes him to an abandoned church; Scorpia's planned to put a satellite in a hot air balloon. At a certain height, they will then activate the nanoshells. Alex activates a retainer with a homing device in his mouth and the SAS rushes to invade the church. As the balloon begins to rise, Alex jumps on the balloon and damages the satellites, causing them to plunge to the ground. Rothman is killed by the falling satellite. near the endof the book, Alex learns that John Rider was a double agent for MI6 and that the bridge scene was staged. Somehow, Scorpia learned that John Rider was still alive and took revenge by blowing up the plane that Alex's parents were riding in. In the last chapter, as Alex exits a building, a Scorpia assassin shoots him in the heart.

One of my favorite characters was Nile. He was like an awesome ninja that was awesome at killing people. it was pretty sweet.