Not being enough with MI-6 and the CIA, now the Australian intelligence also wants to use Alex. And, of course, any intelligence agency who wants to use Alex can do so. At this point poor Alex should be broken physically and mentally. I mean, all these crazy adventures in just a year? Not even an adult agent could keep up with that. Anyway, this one was entertaining in the style of this series, as they are all, although perhaps it was a little disappointing that the possibility of finding out more about Alex's family turned out as it did. ( )

When Alex splashes down from his space adventure at the end of Ark Angel, he is rescued off the coast of Australia. After Jack arrives and they've had a few days rest and relaxation, Australian intelligence, ASIS, offers Alex a job that he can't refuse. If he helps them with an operation meant to expose a plot by a group called Snakehead, his partner on the op with be able to give Alex information about his parents. The operative in question happens to be Alex's godfather, Ash, who is currently working for ASIS. Alex reluctantly agrees, even though he knows that this mission will be just as dangerous as the ones he has already faced, but he is desperate to learn more about his father.

Snakehead is another interesting entry in the Alex Rider series. Through Ash, we learn more about Alex's parents and what happened when they died. As with the other books in the series, there is a lot of action, suspense, and adventure. There is a major twist near the end of the story, but it had been foreshadowed so much, that it was not difficult to see it coming by the end. Overall, Snakehead continues the Alex Rider series with a bang. 3 1/2 stars. ( )

Alex Rider crash lands his space capsule in the ocean near Australia, and is immediately recruited by the Australian national police to help stop illegal human trafficking. All set to say no, they offer Alex a plum he cannot resist: working with his father's closest friend and learning more about his parents. While infiltrating the snakehead, Alex uncovers a plot by Scorpio to kill off peaceniks by creating a tidal wave. Alex is helped by his old "friends" in MI6, and has to save the day again. ( )

Alex makes it back to earth safely, but is promptly convinced to go on another spy mission, this time with his godfather with the idea that Alex will finally learn some things about his parents. Along the way we get an up close and personal look at people smuggling and betrayal. As always, Alex's quick thinking and uncanny luck save the day. ( )

I have to say: how is it that all the books so far have taken place within one year? He never seems to grow any older. I also thought Sabina used to be in Alex's class? But in this book she's a year or more older than him. Anyway, this is a good book. Feels a bit more serious, Alex finds out some rough stuff and there's a twist at the end I never saw coming. ( )

Could not put this book down. Love the series.

In this installment, Alex finds himself working for Australia, fighting against the deadly Snakehead. The mission is to go undercover as a refugee and gather intel on how the Snakehead smuggle, but Alex ends up biting more than he can chew.

Would recommend this to young adults and teenagers ( )

Another Alex Rider book in the same vain as all the others. If you're a kid and a fan of spies and/or James Bond, this is a winner for you. ( )

Jack dies ( )

Really should have stopped with Scorpia. ( )

Anthony Horowitz has made another great book to the Alex Rider series. In this book, Alex Rider is working for the Australian ASIS which basically the rough equivalent of the M16 for Great Britain. Alex Rider has to see how the snakeheads illegally immigrate people to other countries. This time Alex is going against Scorpia the criminal group which was responsible for the death of both his parents. Alex has to pretend to be an Afganistan boy who is getting illegally transported to Australia. He also meets someone in his family. His godfather but at the end of the book he makes a shocking discovery about him. Alex has to stop a bomb that was developed in Great Britain nicknamed "Royal Blue". A executive of Scorpia has decided to use the bomb to make a massive tsunami which will kill thousands of people. It is up to the teenage spy Alex Rider to save many lives. You have to read the book to find out if Alex Rider will save the world again or not!

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Twists, turns and family dramas. Alex Rider is embroiled in another job that is custom made for him. I often wonder what will happen to him when he grows up... or whether he ever will.

If the bad guys ever learnt not to gloat, and to shoot first, then Alex Rider would be in trouble. Instead they like to create creative ends for him, which he always manages to wriggle out of. It's pretty close though, as a reader I'm almost always on the edge of my seat. I'm both hoping and dreading reaching the end of the series, as Alex's luck could finally run out!

Alex has abandoned any attempt to be normal, and seems to be finally embracing the spy life. He's not a patriot, he's doing it only to find out what has happened to his mom and dad. Little does he know that he's doomed from the beginning, and almost everything he trusts is a lie.

Something that fascinates me is Horowitz's realistic settings, and the effort he puts into being international. This is the first time he has really included Australia, which is totally typical of most writers. Australia is more of a destination than an explored place. Horowitz is very creative in the way he kills off the characters. It's a mark of the research he obviously puts into his writing - I really appreciate it, after reading such things as 'Twilight' where things aren't really thought out.

Thrilling, in fact I'd say it was one of the better books of the series. It was a little longer in length (or it felt that way). Horowitz puts his trademark twists in, as well as some gadgets, and some very nice disguises. What the reader thinks is a simple job, really never is.

I'd recommend this for teens who enjoy action. At this point in the series, I think it is essential to have read the books that came before. This book picks up straight after 'Ark Angel'. ( )

The book Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider is once again called back into the action to save the world, working for MI6, the British secret service. Alex is a 14 year old teenager who lives with his uncles friend jack, she is now Alex's parental guardian. Alex's uncle was killed while working on a mission for MI6. After his uncle passed away MI6 called for Alex. MI6 realized that they could use Alex as a secret weapon because Alex was a teenager he wouldn't stand out in hostile situations. The best part is no organized government agency had ever used a teenager before.
In the book Snakehead Alex is faced with the problem of Scorpia, who is now working ruthless gangs. Scorpia is a organized terrorist group. Scorpia is scattered around the globe causing chaos wherever. Scorpia is responsible for the death of Alex's uncle. When Alex takes takes a wrong flight he winds up in Australia. While in Australia Alex realizes his mistaken flight was not an accident and is confronted with the Australian secret service. The Australian secret service had plotted the mistaken flight because they realized they themselves could use the upper hand advantage and use Alex as there own secret weapon for a mission to take out the leader of Scorpia. In order to convince Alex to do the mission they bribe him by stealing his passport, and promise the return of his passport if he completes the mission.
My overall opinion is this is a great book , one of the best I have ever read. I would recommend this book to people who have read any of the other Alex rider books and people who are interested in action books, spy books, and military books. ( )

In the book “Snakehead” by Anthony Horowitz fourteen year old Alex Rider once again is called in to go save the world. It all started when Alex was being held up by the australian secret service when he had an unexpected landing in the country of Australia. The reason he was held there because he didn't have a passport with him. You would think for a kid that just came from outer space they would cut you some slack. But it turns out the secret service want to have Alex come work for them because they know something that other countries don't know. Scorpia, one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the world, wanted to get there hands on a bomb called “Royal Blue”. But this isn't your everyday army c4 bomb kinda stuff. Royal Blue is a secret one of a kind bomb that can cause natural disasters to the world. And Scorpia wants to use to make a giant tsunami to wipe out a large number of the human population near the east side of Asia's border. But to get this bomb you have to call in the Snakeheads. You see the Snakeheads are a weapons smuggling organization. And when Alex Rider is told this he also found out that he had to go in undercover as a boy from Afghanistan wanting to buy weapons with his “father” which is really his godfather in the story. His name is Ash. It turns out that Ash was the only one in Alex's family who is still alive. But when these to go undercover Alex knows somethings not right. But he doesn't worry about it because he thinks it is nothing. But is it? Or is it not? Can Alex and Ash stop the Scorpia and destroy the Snakehead before thousands maybe even millions of people die? Find out in “Snakehead” by Anthony Horowitz.

This book maybe inappropriate to small children due to strong use of language and violence.

This is an interesting adventure book. It is about a teenage boy called Alex Rider who is a secret agent. He has to stop a bomb called the Royal Blue from exploding, and infiltrate an International gang's trading system, called Snake head. The Snake Head illegally transports refugees from other countries into Australia. He is accompanied by his godfather, Ash, who is also a secret agent.

Alex is able to survive many events.

This book is full of suspense and adventure, which is what makes it interesting.

It is a worthwhile book to read because you will not know what is next and you will be full of questions throughout the book.

Snakehead is another book from the Alex Rider Adventure series. In Snakehead, Alex is plumbing towards earth after blowing up the Spacehotel Arch Angel than was supposed to crash into Washington D.C. Alex lands off the coast of Australia. Meanwhile, Scorpia the organization that employed Alex's father and Alex was recovering from it's losses that Alex caused. Scorpia launched a new operation to change the earth. Towards the end of the book, Alex is the only person who can disable the bomb codenamed Royal Blue. Alex finds his godfather Ash and agrees to accompany him to a mission that leads Alex to Bankok and a remote island. Alex also meets up with an old squad mate from the SAS that he was training with. This book is full of adventure, suspense and at the very end of the book, romance. I highly recommend this book for people who enjoy reading the Alex Rider series. ( )

Anthony Horowitz’s “Snake head” is a fiction story about a British teenager named Alex Rider who is a secret agent for Britain’s MI6 (it’s like our C.I.A.) Alex’s mission in this story is not given to him by MI6 but by the ASIS in Australia his mission is to infiltrate an international gang’s (Snake Head) trading system. The snake Head illegally transports refugees from other countries into Australia. Since Alex is still a teenager he is accompanied by another agent his name is Ash and he is Alex’s godfather.

I did not like this book one single bit. I did not like this book for many reasons; one reason was because it was just plain boring I mean at some points in the book I felt like I was dragging myself through the book just to finish it. When I have to suffer through a book like that it’s just not worth my time. Another reason I didn’t like this book was because it was so predictable I mean it was pretty much life and or death situations every chapter it there was one really gruesome part in the book and I wasn’t even affected by it. My rating for this book would be a 2 and one half in my opinion this book wasn’t that great but if you like action adventures you could read it but I advise against it but feel free to read it. ( )

Alex Rider, a 14 year-old, is up to his neck in espionage once again. After his space capsule from the previous adventure drops into the waters near Australia, Alex is rescued by the Australian Secret Service and recruited to infiltrate a nasty gang of criminals called the Snakeheads by posing as a young refugee from Afghanistan. His godfather, Ash, who he did not know existed, is to pose as his father, giving Alex the chance to find out about the parents he never knew, so he accepts the assignment. Amidst all kinds of action, the British secret service convinces him to work for them as well to try to find out the whereabouts of a bomb before Major Yu is able to detonate it and destroy thousands of lives. Alex is always quick on his feet, thinking clearly and with "the luck of the devil", is able to survive insurmountable odds like escaping from a hospital in the middle of a rainforest where he is kept for body parts and kayaking through rapids and over a waterfall in a float from a waterplane. Alex Rider never lets his audience down! This book would be great to suggest to Middle School students who like action stories, especially boys. Contains slight reference to being offered a beer and passing line about topless girls in a bar, but overall, a good clean read and part of a series to continue the fun. 388 pages. ( )

Alex Rider is back in action -- he's just crash-landed in the ocean off the coast of Australia after being in space, and the Australian version of MI-6 recruits him to work with his godfather, Ash, to break up a vicious ring of smuggling gangs. The gangs are known as Snakeheads, and they specialize in smuggling drugs, weapons and people. Alex travels as a Pakistani illegal immigrant from the filthiest slums of Bangkok to Australia, and meets Major Yu, leader of the Snakeheads who is also on the executive board of Scorpia. Major Yu has many nasty plans for Alex, including revealing a devastating secret from Alex's family's past. Can our favorite teen spy survive? Excellent adventure and action as always from Anthony Horowitz, master storyteller! ( )

This book is amazingly horrifying, just thinking about what Alex went through in this book makes me feel sorry for him and sometimes angry because of Ash. I love this book,it drowns me into different emotions. ( )

Mitchell read this in ONE DAY - he read it while he could have been watching stunt combat actors practicing a fight scene for a film even!!! Clearly, it was a very compelling book.

i thought snake head was a good book but not better than any of the books before it. it a book of action and spies ( )

Very intense book to read, as you flip every pages the story will just become more intense until the very end where all the headaching questions have been solved. The characters in this book contains Alex Rider who hates his job as a spy, but still does well at it; Ash, Alex's godfather once worked for the MI6, but he quit after the tragedy on an airplane to Paris which caused the death of Alex Rider's parents,Ash is not his full name it's just his initials;Major Winston Yu , he is a very cruel man, once he is a head of a army but he suffered a weird disease that made him disappeared from the army and started the organization 'Scopia'with 12 other people. This book is a easy read but I don' t think some of the things in the book is suitable for young viewers , so I suggest this book to kids who are around 10 or over. Their are also some betrayles in this book, if you want to find out who betrayed who, then don' t waste any time, go to the library first thing tomorrow after school, or ask for it for a New Year's present.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/anthony-horowitz/ ( )

Snake Head is the type of book that is hard to get out of your hands if you like adventure book. The main character in this book is Alex a 14 year old spy. He travels all over the world on mission's to stop criminals from destroying the world. ( )

I put books in two categories: one you cannot put down, read in a few days, and others that can wait (they can still be good!) Snakehead is the former: it is compelling, easy to read, spy thriller that does not disappoint! Horowitz makes the characters believable and it is obvious he has done his research about technological gadget Rider needs to stay alive. I would recommend this book for teenagers as well adults. My husband I think would enjoy this one as it reminds me a lot of James Bond. ( )