Skeleton Key, a 327 page thriller by Anthony Horowitz, had enough action to keep the book glued to my hands and my eyes wide open. Alex Rider, the main character, starts out as a ball boy at the Wimbledon tournament because suspicious things are occurring there that Alex needs to check out. After a painful fight with a Chinese gang member, Alex is shipped off to a distant island called Skeleton Key for safety. A search for an evil man with enough uranium to blow up all of Russia’s submarine fleet in Murmansk and then some, leads Alex to be captured by this man. It turned out the man, Alexei Sarov, had lost a son about Alex’s age and wished for Alex to replace him. When Alex reused repeatedly, Sarov decided to leave Alex in Murmansk for when the bomb blows up. Alex nearly disabled the bomb, so Sarov came back and attempted to shoot Alex. Finding he couldn’t bring himself to do it, Sarov shot himself just as a rescue party got Alex out of Murmansk and disabled the bomb. I hope you can now see why I was so fascinated by the story and recommend that you read it too!
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