"Indoctrinated kids, a deadly VR game, a sinister cult, and the powers of AI — Alex Rider’s thrilling 14th mission tackles big topics in exhilarating style."
With unfinished business to deal with after the thrilling events of Nightshade, Anthony Horowitz’s Nightshade Revenge sees Alex Rider, the world’s favourite teenager spy, take his 14 th mission by the scruff of the neck, and this time it’s intensely personal.
The novel opens with Alex about to head to a maximum-security facility to visit Freddy, “the boy who had come so close to killing two thousand people.” After being kidnapped and indoctrinated by the “Teachers” who run Nightshade, sick people who’d “been making millions of pounds by turning children in cold-blooded assassins,” Freddy is undergoing a programme to reverse the brainwashing. Believing he’s defeated Nightshade, Alex also believes he can help Freddy recover.
But this task is harder and more complicated than Alex anticipates. With his best mate Tom abducted by the shady cult of teenage assassins, he delves deeper into uncovering the dark depths of Nightshade, and becomes enmeshed in a world in which it’s all but impossible to strip reality from illusion.
In keeping with the on-the-pulse themes covered in this ground-breaking series some 20 years ago, Nightshade Revenge tackles contemporary technological innovations around AI and VR gaming to present young readers with a page-turning story that’s both of the moment and an all-out adventure classic.
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The world's bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission.
When his best friend Tom is abducted, Alex Rider is given an ultimatum by Nightshade - a sinister cult of assassins with a score to settle. But what twisted evil are they planning, and how is it connected to a revolutionary new gaming system?
With no idea who to trust, Alex finds himself dragged into a nightmare world - where nothing is real but the game could kill you.
The clock is ticking and Nightshade is closing in…
This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex's fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up of brainwashed children, not least trying to reunite MI6 chief Mrs Jones with her long-lost son. The adventure takes us deep into the life-changing world of augmented reality, where even Alex will struggle to succeed against the technology. A thrilling new challenge for the world's best-loved teen superspy.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Adventure Stories, Thrillers, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge is available in Paperback, Hardback
Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge was written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books
Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge has 316 pages
Yes it is part of Alex Rider series
£8.09
