Scorpia 5

This book was definitely the best book of the series. This is what happened in the cliff-hanger ending. Alex was summoned to a commission of the high gov't officials of Britain, they discussed a letter about Scorpia's demands. These demands were outrageous. He is an example of one of their demands, "The American President must resign (within their 72 hour period)... otherwise we will be forced to use Invisible Sword on your school children" (201). Then Alex is sent back to Scorpia, he needs to act like nothing happened, to find out how Invisible Sword works. Mean while, Scorpia ran a test run with Invisible sword by experimenting with it on the English Soccer team. This is described in the following statement, "The whole team, including the coaches, fell to the ground grasping their chest's" (250). This confused the British so much, they couldn't figure out what happened to them. Alex finds out how, they used nano shells in vaccines, which the Enlgish school children and the soccer team took, to kill the people. The shell's will break down in the heart when a terahertz beam is aimed in their general vicinity, sending a dose of arsenic to the body. The beams need to be active for 2 minutes, non-stop, at at least 10,000 ft. above the target. Alex and MI6 need to find out more about this operation before it is too late.

Back to Alex, who is undercover. He has a retainer in his mouth, which pressed in the right place, will release a "panic signal" so MI6 will be able to locate him immediately and move in to stop the deadly operation. Meanwhile, MI6 finds some terahertz beams on a build that is near the center of London, surpassing 10,000 ft. They think that they have found the really beams but the unthinkable is about to happen. Alex is taken to an old church and he sees a huge hot air balloon being pumped up with, you guessed it, 4 terahertz beams on board. He immediately signals MI6 and they move in just too late because the balloon has already taken off. Alex is forced to climb up a rope to the balloon, with Ms. Rothman's right hand man Nile on his tail. Alex reaches the top just in time to dismantle the beams. Then the part of the balloon explodes into a fiery ball and Nile goes plummeting to the ground. Alex then used the balloon as a parachute and floats to the ground. The mission was accomplished but then there is something else. After Alex is debriefed, where he learns that his fathers death was faked by MI6 (he later died in a plane crash because Scorpia somehow found out), he is shot in the chest by an assassin, working for Scorpia, and falls to the ground. This is the end of the book, I cannot wait to read the last, and final book (so far), in the terrific series.

This was, again, the best book in the series and one of the best books I have ever read. It was actioned packed and I cannot wait to read the next one for Q2.
Thanks and I hoped you enjoyed reading my post's,
RJ