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Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin by Anthony Horowitz
2.0
Alex Rider is a series of action-packed spy novels about a 14 year old boy who works for the British Secret Service. Russian Roulette is the latest in the series, but as a prequel, it takes place before the previous nine books, and so the reader won’t be too confused reading them out of sequence.
This book is told as a series of diary entries from the perspective of Yassen Gregoravich – the villainous Russian assassin who has threatened Alex Rider throughout the series. This book details Yassen’s childhood, and the circumstances which led to his becoming recruited by the Sinister Scorpia organization, and becoming a contract killer.
Russian Roulette is action-packed, but don’t write it off as all guns and explosions and ‘boyish’ adventures – it’s an intelligent and well-written book, and can be enjoyed by anyone!
This book is told as a series of diary entries from the perspective of Yassen Gregoravich – the villainous Russian assassin who has threatened Alex Rider throughout the series. This book details Yassen’s childhood, and the circumstances which led to his becoming recruited by the Sinister Scorpia organization, and becoming a contract killer.
Russian Roulette is action-packed, but don’t write it off as all guns and explosions and ‘boyish’ adventures – it’s an intelligent and well-written book, and can be enjoyed by anyone!