When Alex Rider crash-lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across Southeast Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the ch
Snakehead
β Scribed by Anthony Horowitz
- Book ID
- 100390834
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Philomel Books
- Year
- 2008;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 260 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1429571160
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β¦ Synopsis
Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover β this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service β 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 his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one to trust β and this time he needs all his wits to survive...
β¦ Subjects
Middle Grade
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