Anthony Horowitz (9 November 2009). "Alex Rider exclusive: Incident in Nice". The Times. London . Retrieved 15 November 2009. So this book is basically about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider. He works for MI6, which is a spy agency for Great Britain. He tries to stop bad people from doing things that would create crisis throughout the world. Anthony Horrowitz also loves to use syntax throughout his book to excite and rush readers which is crucial to a book like this such as the quote, "If he fell!...He could imagine it. Smashing into the shingles." He uses them so effectively that made readers stop and think before continue on reading all the while bombard with words that made readers feel like they are in the shotgun position along with Alex. It shows that syntax is used for a very good reason and Horowitz use them so good and masterful. Horowitz also loves using a lot of figurative language to describe things that Alex encountered. Like when Alex is describing the crocodiles that he was supposed to get eaten by, "They were really the eyes of death," and, "They twisted and sliced their way through the water like two knife wounds."

Clarke, Stewart (24 July 2018). "Alex Rider Series Heads to TV With Sony, Eleventh Hour". Variety . Retrieved 18 October 2018. In May 2017, it was announced that ITV was developing a television adaptation of the Alex Rider novels. The series is being produced by Eleventh Hour Films, with Tutankhamen screenwriter and novelist Guy Burt acting as showrunner. Eleventh Hour Films is run by Horowitz's wife Jill Green. [8] Dont get me wrong, I love Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series. I've been reading them for 2 years ever since a librarian recommended his first story in the series. But...the stories all have one thing in common thats really starting to bother me. Move over Scorpia, CROCODILE TEARS is here. I'm a HUGE Alex Rider fan and Crocodile Tears just reminded me how much I love the books. Crocodile Tears is not only the best Alex Rider book so far, it introduces some problems in Alex's life that might seem quite ordinary, but could put Alex in a whole load of danger. With no-one to turn to for help, Alex is facing some of the hardest times of his life."Alex has come up with some clever ways on how he gets out of situations and i'm always surprised when he does because so many of these situations are impossible to get out of but Alex always does. Alex's stunts were a little too far-fetched. Grabbing a rope hanging from a helicopter that is flying by when you are on a wobbly roof about to fall is hard enough. How on Earth can a fourteen year-old grab hold of a rope hanging from a plane while on a wobbly roof about to fall off? And how can he pull himself up when he is was feeling fatigued twenty minutes ago and don't forget the wind pushing on him. Insane. I know.

This book was amazing! I stayed up all night reading it, and I was thrilled when I saw it came out the day before my birthday. I would recommend this to ANYONE!" In July 2018, it was reported that Sony Pictures Television had replaced ITV as Eleventh Hour Film's distribution and financial partner for a new Alex Rider television series. Sony Pictures Television's international and worldwide distribution divisions under Wayne Garvie and Keith Le Goy were attached to the film series. Burt had adapted Point Blanc, the second book in the Alex Rider novel series, for television. Horowitz will serve as executive producer for the series. [9] Clarke, Stewart (31 May 2017). "Alex Rider Books Being Developed Into Series by ITV, Eleventh Hour Films". Variety.

This is definitely one of the best Alex Rider books so far. It is easily as good as Skeleton Key! Most Alex Rider books I read once. I think they're good but I don't read them again - but this one I absolutely HAVE to read again!" I think it is great. I have been reading the Alex Rider books for a really long time but this one looks like the best." Petski, Denise (10 November 2020). " 'Alex Rider' Renewed For Season 2 By IMDb TV". Deadline . Retrieved 20 November 2020. This series is a lot of fun. Lots of cool spy stuff and some over the top action. (In one of the books Alex goes into outer space. Jumping the shark? Maybe. Did I still read it. You bet.) The story itself is up with the rest of the series, which I have on audio cds. But this is a English story of a English school boy most of the action takes place in England and written has far has I know by a English author, so why are they using American words like dollars (you can't spend dollars in the UK), Candy (you buy some one a box of chocolates or sweets), side-walks and a English school boys wear school trousers not pants. I know it's this app and it's readers because all the other books in the series uses English words not American.

My only complains are after a while the villains are pretty cookie cutter and again the plot fluctuates between believable and fantasy. (They're spy adventure books for teenage boys, so I mostly let it slide.) If it was written for older readers it would also have to deal with the effect on a fourteen year old boy of the traumatic events to which he is subjected. I gathered that he had been shot in the past, at Liverpool Street station, and although there is a token effort at showing he still has some reaction when he has to go there again, he doesn't appear to suffer any qualms from killing a number of men in this book, even though it is in self defence.Anyhew, baddie gets bored and leaves with his posse of strong, dead-eye tribesmen, leaving his fiancé to watch Alex fall to his death. Fiancé gets shot from behind by (surprise, surprise) the foreign Indian dude from Scotland! He works for an Indian Intelligence Agency hell-bent on taking revenge on the bad guy for orchestrating the bombing in India. His mission is to kill the bad guy, which is helpful, but he isn’t a very good spy is he? Deviating from his missions like that to save random people.