Name: Crocodile Tears
ISBN: 9780399250569

Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.

Crocodile Tears

Alex Rider's eighth, adrenaline fueled adventure in the number one bestselling series. In the eighth book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, Alex meets international do-gooder Desmond McCain. But a simple card game between them rapidly leads to a duel to the death – one that could result in the destruction of an entire country.

Lynn Braden

On a trip to Scotland to celebrate New Year's Eve with Sabina Pleasure and her parents, she and Alex are almost killed in a car accident.  When Alex gets home and back to school, MI6 asks him to infiltrate the office of Leonard Straik while on a science field trip to a genetic research facility called Greenfields.  While there, Alex stumbles on a plot involving Straik and Desmond McCain, who he met in Scotland.  Alex barely escapes Greenfields to get the information he gathered to MI6, but his connection to them leaves him vulnerable to the very people that he was trying to expose.

Crocodile Tears is another action packed adventure featuring Alex and his amazing skills as a 14 year old spy.  In this installment, we do see that Alex does have friends, and he is trying to have a normal life, but even if he doesn't seek out trouble, it seems to find him.  We continue to hear about the psychological toll that these missions are having on him, but most of the damage seems to be physical.  The bad guy in this story has his eye on money and power as with many of the villains in these stories.  Overall, Crocodile Tears tells a plausible story with a satisfying conclusion. 3 1/2 stars

Vanessa Egger

Luke Harkness

Leo Vogel

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Abbie Ray

Eitan Hershkovitz

Vikram Ithal

Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond Cain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of Cain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. Getting word to MI6 only makes matters worse. Now, before even facing the real enemy, Alex must also stop his own side before they unwittingly trigger the death of a whole nation.

Nicole Sonja

Charlie Donaldson-Shaw

Targeted by a hit man and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap; they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant.