TERVEISIÄ LUOKASTA 2026

2021/11/14

ALEX RIDER - SCORPIA RISING

 ALEX RIDER - SCORPIA RISING

 

SCORPIA -  Private Intelligence Agency whose name stood for: Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence and Assassination.

 



Alex Rider is a youth book series written by Anthony Horowitz about a 14-year-old spy boy. Alex’s parents John and Helen Rider have died when he was just a little baby, and since then Alex has been cared for by her uncle Ian Rider. 

 

In the first book of the series, Stormbreaker, Alex gets to hear his uncle Ian is dead and begins to figure out how it happened. He learns that Ian was not working in the banking industry, but was an agent for MI6.

 

20 YEARS OF ALEX RIDER


 - an ordinary teen

- an extraordinary spy

- reluctant hero


In the book " Scorpia" Alex seeks the criminal organization "Scorpia" to find the truth about his dead father.


 ALEX RIDER

 


Scorpia

Scorpia was published in 2004. Following the advice of the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, Alex seeks the criminal organization "Scorpia" to find the truth about his father. He is soon recruited by Scorpia executive Julia Rothman, and he is trained as an assassin before being ordered to kill Mrs. Jones. He fails in this mission but realigns with MI6 after learning that thousands of schoolchildren in London would die if he did not help them. Alex is returned to Scorpia as a double agent and discovers the broadcasting dishes that Scorpia intends to use to kill their targets, which are later lifted into the sky by a hot air balloon. Rothman's henchman, Nile, tries to stop Alex, but he is afraid of heights, causing him to slip and fall to his death after being taunted by Alex. Alex manages to stop the death of the schoolchildren while Rothman herself is killed when the dish equipment falls on top of her. At the end of the novel, Mrs. Jones and Alan Blunt tell Alex the truth about his father; he was an MI6 agent working as a double agent in Scorpia, attempting to take down the organization. They also explain his parents' death, ordered by Julia Rothman after she was noted of his father's treachery, as well as the true details of the event that happened on Albert Bridge. As Alex leaves Liverpool Street, he is shot by a Scorpia sniper.