Alex Rider #3: Skeleton Key - The Graphic Novel Award-winning author by Anthony Horowitz (author), Antony Johnston (author), Kanako (illustrator), and Yuzuro (illustrator) (UK edition)

The hazy days of Wimbledon are the unlikely first link in a terrifying chain of events. Alex Rider, reluctant teenage spy, is forced into hiding after his recce mission as a ballboy makes him a target for a murderous Chinese gang. Sent to the island Skeleton Key, Alex is thrown into further danger as from there, General Sarov – an insane Russian – has plans to destroy the world. Alone, with just a handful of gadgets, Alex must outwit Sarov as the seconds tick away…

Product Details

Series

Alex Rider (book 3)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406366341

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

January 7th, 2016

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.0; Middle years plus; 2.0 points

Other details

176 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Alex Rider

Author/Illustrator

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..