Website header

Important Information

All titles and prices are available for school purchase only. Please select an open school group order or school address for delivery.

Dismiss

Account actions

Basket

0 items
$0.00

Search

FREE books for your school Shop
Scorpia

Suitable for 8 – 15 years

This product is not currently available.

One other format or edition for $11.40

This item has 5 stars of a maximum 5

Rated 5/5 from 4 ratings

0 reviews (Add a review)

Feefo platinum service award 2023
Every order earns Free books for your school. #ScholasticSupportsSchools

Delivery information

We are only able to deliver orders to school addresses

  • FREE delivery for schools*
  • Delivery within 10 working days

Book Club orders

  • FREE delivery to schools
  • Books will be despatched after the school's order is confirmed

*We do not charge for delivery, but your order may incur additional customs costs.

Delivery information and refund and returns policy

More books for 8 - 15 year olds

Categories

Product description

An international criminal group known as Scorpia can offer Alex something no-one else will: the truth.

Alex Rider is in Venice, looking for secrets long-ago buried in the past. Was his father really a ruthless assassin? And if so, what does that make Alex? The trail leads Alex to a shadowy criminal organisation, Scorpia – and the glamorous Italian home of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and criminal mastermind. But Claudia reveals a secret that takes Alex’s breath away: his father was murdered by MI6. Now Alex must make a choice. Should he carry on working for MI6, who have manipulated and betrayed him? Or will he join Scorpia – and seek revenge?

Product Details

Series

Alex Rider (book 5)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780744570519

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

April 1st, 2005

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.0; Middle years plus; 12.0 points

Other details

  • 368 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Alex Rider Alex Rider

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Photo of Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

Activities & resources

Reviews

This product has not been reviewed yet.

Add a review

What kids think

  1. Spidergirl
    on 9 March 2014

    Scary scorpion story

    5 out of 5

  2. alibaba4
    on 8 March 2014

    Amazing book

    5 out of 5

  3. AngelofDeath
    on 7 March 2014

    This book is as amazing as the rest of the series but it is full of suspense as Alex gets to know the truth about his father and how he was actually a MI6 agent.

  4. books2000
    on 6 March 2014

    its good

  5. Nashdasher
    on 7 March 2013

    I love this Alex Rider book. Full of suspense and action

    5 out of 5

  6. ninjastickman
    on 5 March 2013

    This is a brilliant book. Mrs.Rothman, the head of scorpia, is out to get London school children with a deadly virus!

    5 out of 5

  7. chloewhite33
    on 4 March 2013

    Amazing this book is full of mystery.

  8. jenko006
    on 13 November 2012

    I DESPETTLY WANT THIS BOOK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD!

  9. dashernasher
    on 5 March 2012

    this is the book the bbok that the series is based around. very good.

  10. Funkyboy9
    on 3 March 2011

    At the end of Eagle strike the ruthless assasain Yassen Gregovitch gives Alex a vital piece of information. He tells him to go to Venice and find Scorpia. But Alex is faced with a dilema who or what is Scorpia? With more twists and turns than a snake with an ending that is COMPLETLY unexpected.

    5 out of 5

  11. Missymessy
    on 27 February 2011

    I love all the anger in Alex in this book, he really makes you think what is he going to do next. His temper seemed to make him unpredictable and that just made the book much more gripping. Really enjoyed reading the book and the fact that Alex was turning on MI6 just made it even more ingenious! Loved it!

    5 out of 5

Other formats or editions