teens @ daniel boone regional library

Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider series, is only two chapters away from finishing his ninth and final installment, Scorpia Rising.  On his blog, Mr. Horowitz writes, “Scorpia Rising starts in the British Museum in London. Then it moves to a place called the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, in the middle of the Sahara desert, where we meet Kalid Aziz Al-Kazim who is without doubt the nastiest villain I’ve ever created. He worked for Saddam Hussein when he was fourteen. He graduated to Al Qaeda. Now he’s in business for himself. There are actually three villains in this book. One of them is what you might call an old friend – brought back by popular demand. The other is a teacher at an international school in Cairo which is where Alex is sent after an assassin in London tries to…but I mustn’t give too much away.”