Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)

Product Information

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. 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. 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.

Anyhew, baddie gets bored and leaves with his posse of strong, dead-eye tribesmen, leaving his fiancé to watch Alex fall to his death. It introduces a detective by the name of Daniel Hawthorne - a rather dark and dangerous man whom I actually met on the set of Injustice.

It's so hard to believe to find out Alex is only just about to turn 15 after there being 7 other books and it's crazy to believe this storyline is only set over the course of a year, it just goes to show how much one 14 year old has gone through. Meanwhile, whilst looking on CCTV surveillance with Straik and Dr Myra Bennett (the Greenfields supervisor, and McCain's fiancée), McCain recognises Alex and puts out the word for information.

I haven't read any others (yeah I know that it is bad to start a book in the middle of a series) but I must say that I am very excited to read the others.

The very first page contained the action and sinisterness that is so trademark of Alex Rider, and it didn't stop. Jack congratulates Alex that it's his fifteenth birthday shortly and promises him that MI6 won't ever use him again. Alex lives the roughest life and then just to add salt to the wound, people refuse to believe him because he's only fourteen.