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Skeleton Key : an Alex Rider adventure
Title:
Skeleton Key : an Alex Rider adventure
Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
ISBN:
9780142406144
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Physical Description:
327, 16 pages ; 20 cm
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Philomel Books, 2003.
Contents:
In the dark -- Match point -- Blood and strawberries -- Cribber -- Two weeks in the sun -- Not so special agents -- Death of a salesman -- Passport control -- brotherhood square -- Devil's chimney -- Crusher -- House of slaves -- Heartbeat -- Nuclear dustbin -- Security nightmare -- End of the world -- After Alex.
Abstract:
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.