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Skeleton Key: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider)

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Skeleton Key: The Graphic Novel provides a vivid Alex Rider action story in full color where the teen superspy is sent to Skeleton Key - an island near Cuba - to thwart an insane Russian. Intrigue and manga-style art contribute to this third Alex Rider adventure for all ages.

This one is enough to make you hate every bit of arrogant posturing that some Russians have ever pulled off. The contrast even in temperament and personality type between the nemesis - a former Soviet general - and Alex is truly striking, and is made all the more so by the general's surprising request to adopt Alex as his son to replace the son he lost in Afghanistan. To put it in a nutshell, the general admires what Alex does - he is every whit as versatile as the general's late son - but in the end rejects what Alex is, with tragic consequences. Oh, and along the way Western Europe almost becomes a radioactive wasteland - because the general would have it so (and wants Alex to acquiesce, one way or another).

In other words, I loved this graphic novel, so I won't give away any more of its plot.

My son (11) received 3 of these for Xmas. He read them all in a day. He LOVES them, but he told me there was a lot of violence. This is a comic book. He has the regular books. I am hoping that reading these comic books will inspire him to read the full written version. We'll see...