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Author: Anthony Horowitz

Genre: realistic fiction

Title : Skeleton Key

Call Number: F Hor

Rating: I personally give this book 5 stars in a 1 to 5 scale. one being the worst, five being the best. It has a lot of action and it is really descriptive. People who like action,  adventure, and mystery will like this book. It also has a decent amount of violence which helps with the description. I also recommend  Stormbreaker, and Point Blank, both are also by Anthony Horowitz.

Summary: Alex Rider is not a normal 14 year old.He has gone through things worse than the experience some sailors might have had on 1941 December 7,without any post traumatic stress disorder. And now he has to save the world again, this time from a Russian maniac playing with nuclear weapons. Find out how Alex has to go under cover to the island of skeleton key pretending to be the son of two c.i.a. agents. But when Alex finds out that they died trying to infiltrate the house of the Russian general Sarov by going though a old abandoned underwater entrance, he has to think fast and being in the water at dusk is one risky position to put yourself  , but before Alex has time to decide what to do he finds himself face to face with a great white shark and he is armed only with a tactical knife. After his encounter with his friend, Alex finds himself swimming back to the small boat that brought them out.When he gets on the boat he finds the driver dead with a cigarette in his mouth and a knife in his back. Before he knows it he has been kidnapped, and now Sarov plans to adopt him. Alex then finds out that he plans to set off over a hundred nuclear missiles in the Russian port of Murmansk. Sarov is giving him one more chance to behave and Alex needs to move fast, but can he stop the general or will the world fall under a cloud of deadly radiation? Read this action packed adventure to find out.

Reviewer :M B Mr. Chapuis