Snakehead

Its place in Alex Rider

Snakehead is book 7 in the Alex Rider series. It follows Ark Angel. It is followed by Crocodile Tears. See the full Alex Rider reading order.

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider's uncle Ian raised him alone and, Alex discovers after Ian's sudden death, secretly worked for MI6 -- and the agency wants Alex, trained without his knowledge his entire childhood, to finish his uncle's last mission. From Stormbreaker onward, Alex is repeatedly blackmailed and coerced into deniable teenage espionage: infiltrating a billionaire's private school, a cloning facility, a Caribbean crime syndicate, and increasingly personal confrontations with the organization SCORPIA, all…