Alex turns to MI6 for help but their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant.

There needs to be a fresher plot, a more interesting villain, or some character development for Alex. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say.I loved the rooftop race with the ductwork and the time when Alex hung suspended over the hungry crocodiles. It started out fine, and I thought for a moment this would be one heck of a book, and that at last, Mr Horowitz would deliver! As the mission involves getting access to Straik's computer, one gadget is a memory stick disguised as an eraser; the other gadgets include two exploding gel pens, a diamond-edged knife disguised as a pencil sharpener, a CCTV camera jammer and communicator disguised as a pocket calculator, and a disguised swipe card that opens any door in conjunction with a reprogrammer built into a lead-lined pencil case. It is the exact poison that a man from Mississippi tried to sent to President Obama and a Congressman from Capital Hill recently.

But as I grew older (and my original audience entered their twenties) I felt a need to move into adult writing. Manusia yang berlindung di sebalik organisasi amal namun sebenarnya menggunakannya untuk kepentingan sendiri. I don't want Alex Rider to die but seriously a little less unbelievable stuff because this gets boring after some while. Skip, skip, Indian spy passes out from his fever, that he got after his wound got infected, a wound that he got from parachuting in the night, and landing somewhere sharp and pointy. Jack congratulates Alex that it's his fifteenth birthday shortly and promises him that MI6 won't ever use him again.

Alex has been through so much in a year and i feel so bad for this kid because he keeps getting brought back into this world and after telling himself again and again. It's a page-turner that will have you on the edge of you seat reading in the middle of the night until Alex gets himself out of the very last impossible situation. Alex has his friend, Tom Harris, cover for him as he breaks away from the group to infiltrate Straik's office, using a locator map disguised as a postcard. He goes to a New Year's Eve party hosted by the rich businessman Desmond McCain, founder of the charity First Aid.

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? 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. Alex tells him the truth, but McCain seemingly changes his mind (though it is debatable whether he wanted to kill Alex anyway) and leaves him with the crocodiles. One problem I found was that unlike Snakehead and Scorpia there wasn't any of Alex's background even though it was gr8 :-) P. In Anthony Horowitz's latest action-packed Alex Rider adventure Crocidile Tears, Alex finds himself looking at a possible wrecking ball to his struggle for a normal life that goes by the name of Harry Bulman.The man seems startled when he later comes upon Alex and his friend's father discussing his homework about GM crops.