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Alex Rider adaptor Antony Johnston has chosen his cohorts well, for the line art by Emma Vieceli and the colour art by Kate Brown is beautiful. It is clean and pristine and perfectly captures Italy’s spirit of place.
A bold and stylish graphic adaptation of Alex Rider's fifth mission.
In the fifth book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex travels to Venice to discover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia, and Alex must make a choice … work for MI6 once more, or betray everything he believes in.
Anthony Horowitz is the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider books and The Power of Five series. He has enjoyed huge success as a writer for both children and adults, most recently with the latest adventure in the Alex Rider series,
Russian Roulette and the highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels,
The House of Silk and
Moriarty. Anthony was chosen by the Ian Fleming estate to write the new James Bond novel,
Trigger Mortis. Anthony has won numerous awards, including the Bookseller Association/Nielsen Author of the Year Award, the Children’s Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, and the Red House Children’s Book Award. Anthony was awarded an OBE for Services to Literature. He has also created and written many major television series, including
Injustice,
Collision and the award-winning
Foyle’s War.
