Hey everyone! Here is the first letter, to anyone who wants to read it, for the last Lit Circle book of the year. My book is Book 7 of the Alex Rider Adventures. I hope someone comments on this. Just an FYI, I don't have a Lit Circle Partner, but it's all good because I can work independently. So now lets begin.
The first part to my book is right after the end of book 6. It is about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider. He was blackmailed into working for the MI6-Britain's top secret intelligence agency. His father, uncle, and godfather all worked for MI6. But then both his parents were murdered by Scorpia, the top terrorist organization in the world, when he was only a few years old. Then when he was 14, his uncle Ian was shot and killed by a contract killer, Yassen Gregorovich. Since then, Alex has been used countless times like a puppet on strings. He has been recruited by MI6 and forced to investigate Lebanese millionaire Herod Sayle, who plans to kill all of Britain's schoolchildren with his "Stormbreaker" computers. His next mission was to investigate Dr Hugo Grief, a South African scientist who runs Point Blanc, an academy in the French Alps. He later foiled a Triad plot to fix Wimbledon games, and is in danger of assassination, so he is forced to leave the country, and MI6 sends him on a mission to Cuba with the CIA, where he encounters a former Soviet general, Alexei Sarov, with plans for a nuclear holocaust and world domination. Soon after he finds himself with Damian Cray, a world-famous pop star, who hopes to destroy the world's drug-making countries by hijacking the United States' nuclear arsenal. Suspicious of him, Alex takes Cray on without the help of the skeptical MI6. His 5th mission takes him to the criminal organization "Scorpia" to find out the truth about his father. On his most recent adventure, he finds himself working for the CIA a second time to gather information on Russian billionaire Nikolei Drevin, who is financing the space hotel "Ark Angel", and the eco-terrorist organization, Force Three. Now finally we come to the 7th mission where so far, Alex has been recruited by the Australian Secret Service, after he has just returned to Earth from space where he destroyed the Ark Angel before it had the chance to crash and kill hundreds of people at the Pentagon in Washington. His newest mission leads Alex to his godfather, Ash. Ash was the closest friend to Alex's father and was there the morning his parents were killed. He originally worked for MI6, but later emigrated to ASIS. In order to make Alex agree to help, ASIS partners Ash and Alex and has them flown off to Bangkok so that they can investigate the snakeheads who is a ruthless gang that smuggles drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Their job is to replace the father and son, Karim and Abdul, and secretly investigate the snakeheads while they are smuggled back to Australia.
"I don't know, Jack..." Alex looked at the ice cream, melting on his spoon. He wished he could explain how he felt. He didn't want to work for MI6 again. He was sure of that. But at the same time...
The meaning in this quote is always repeated in every one of the Alex Rider series. Alex is always used, manipulated, and his life is treated like crap. He is always asked for help, and one way or another, they eventually get him to agree. But once he agrees, everyone starts treating him like a kid. They don't care what happens to his life as long as he cooperates. They don't give him weapons to protect himself. How can they send a child somewhere where he can't fight on equal grounds with them?
That's about all there is in part 1 of my book. Come back next time to see part 2 of Alex's latest adventure. Until then, see ya!
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