Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)

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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." I got this book last week and it's unputdownable!! All my friends went 'WOW, where did you get that from? What happens?' - and all that. It is amazing, filled with action. A great read for someone new to the series or someone who's read the last seven (like me)." When Bulman has his life taken away from him by MI6, the newspapers show a Chief Superintendent Stephen Leather heading the fake murder investigation. This is a reference to Anthony Horowitz's fellow writer and contemporary Stephen Leather, with whom Horowitz worked on the 2001-2003 BBC anthology series Murder in Mind.

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!" 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. 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 author use informal diction here mostly because of the reputation of the series and to help readers connect easier with the character Alex who is 14, which is about the young adults age. 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.

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Its a bit like having a American book about American person taking place in the USA and having the story going on about spending pounds & pence, having jam on toast, jelly and Ice cream and sweets and wearing trousers, it would sound all wrong wouldn't it? to you, well that's how it sounds to me. 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."

Clarke, Stewart (24 July 2018). "Alex Rider Series Heads to TV With Sony, Eleventh Hour". Variety . Retrieved 18 October 2018. I found that this was number 8 in a series about a young boy, Alex Rider, fourteen years old, who has been recruited by MI6, part of British intelligence. It comes across as quite a cliched James Bond scenario, down to its own version of Q who comes up with the gadgets though the one in this is called Smithers instead. I suspended my disbelief about this unlikely premise, and enjoyed the action sequences and general mayhem. I personally think that this Alex Rider is one of the best I've read because there's lots going on." One point of the book that was a big hit for me was the problem of food scarcity for the Third World today, and the author demonstrate it very clearly that they need him because Desmond Mccain wanted to create the poison ricin to kill the people of the Third World, specifically Africa. To destroy the population of Africa would make Mccain a very rich man because he would be able to scam people out of their donations. I’m really enjoying these Alex Rider books. Even though they are marketed as YA (and I am a little bit older than that, perhaps even considered OA), they are a delight to read. I’m plowing through them at a rate of one a month this year so, since it is August, this must be the eighth book in the series.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. I haven't read it all yet but it is AMAZING, so far! I really want to read more so I think I might just go and read it now." 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." Anthony Horowitz (9 November 2009). "Alex Rider exclusive: Incident in Nice". The Times. London . Retrieved 15 November 2009.