Ark Angel (Alex Rider, Band 6)
Anthony Horowitz’s Ark Angel follows Alex Rider as a wounded yet unbroken teen spy who returns to danger with a mission that blends high-tech ambition and moral peril. A near-fatal gunshot fractures his world, but the boy-spy reenters the fray with sharpened resolve and lethal pragmatism. The narrative widens to cast a scheme of eco-terrorists whose zealotry collides with corporate grandiosity in the form of Ark Angel, a venture that aspires to crown space with luxury. Horowitz maintains his brisk, page-turning tempo while calibrating the hero’s introspection against a gauntlet of plots and counterplots. The hospital recuperation scene ground Alex’s urgency, reminding readers that the stakes extend beyond national security to the fragility of human life. The villainous consortium exerts pressure through intimidation and audacious schemes, testing Alex’s nerve, improvisational skill, and sense of responsibility. The prose channels a thriller’s cadence while hinting at adolescence’s ache for belonging amid a world of wealth, power, and artificial horizons. In the end, Ark Angel dramatizes the tension between human audacity and the limits of control, leaving the boy spy poised for further trials in Horowitz’s continuing chronicle of espionage adolescence.
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Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures) (2007)
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, vermutlich in Englisch, Puffin Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Books.
Alex Rider: Ark Angel, English edition (2007)
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, in Englisch, Speak, Taschenbuch, neu.
Von Privat, Syndikat Buchdienst, [4235284].
KURZE BESCHREIBUNG/ANMERKUNGEN: After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel. AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angel-the first luxury hotel in outer space-is a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them. AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: Chapter 2The nurse was twenty-three years old, blonde, and nervous. This was only her second week at St. Dominic's, one of London's most exclusive private hospitals. Rock stars and television celebrities came here, she had been told. There were also VIPs from abroad. VIPs here meant very important patients. Even famous people get sick, and the ones who wanted to recover in five-star comfort chose St. Dominic'S. The surgeons and therapists were world-class. The hospital food was so good that some patients had been known to pretend they were ill so that they could enjoy it for a while longer.That evening, the nurse was making her way down a wide, brightly lit corridor, carrying a tray of medicines. She was wearing a freshly laundered white dress. Her name-d. meacher-was printed on a badge pinned to her uniform. Several of the junior doctors had already placed bets on which of them would persuade her to go out with them first.She stopped in front of an open door. Room nine."Hello," she said. "I'm Diana Meacher.""I'm looking forward to meeting you too," the boy in room nine replied.Alex Rider was sitting up in bed, reading a French textbook that he should have been studying at school. He was wearing pajamas that had fallen open at the neck and the nurse could just make out the bandages crisscrossing his chest. He was a very handsome boy, she thought. He had fair hair and serious brown eyes that looked as though they had seen too much. She knew that he was only fourteen, but he looked older. Pain had done that to him. Nurse Meacher had read his medical file and understood what he had been through.In truth, he should have been dead. Alex Rider had been hit by a bullet fired from a .22 rifle from a distance of almost 250 feet. The sniper had been aiming for his heart-and if the bullet had found its target, Alex would have had no chance of surviving. But nothing is certain-not even murder. A tiny movement had saved his life. As he had come out of MI6's headquarters on Liverpool Street, he had stepped off the sidewalk, his right foot carrying his body down toward the level of the road. It was at that exact moment that the bullet had hit him, and instead of powering into his heart, it had entered his body half an inch higher, ricocheting off a rib and exiting horizontally under his left arm.The bullet had missed his vital heart structures, but even so, it had done plenty of damage, tearing through the subclavian artery, which carries blood over the top of the lung and into the arm. This was what Alex had felt when he was hit. As blood had poured out of the severed artery, filling the space between the lung and the thoracic cage, he had found himself unable to breathe. Alex could easily have died from shock or loss of blood. If he had been a man, he almost certainly would have. But the body of a child is different from that of an adult. A young person's artery will automatically shut itself down if cut-doctors can't explain how or why-and this will limit the amount of blood lost. Alex was unconscious, but he was still breathing, four minutes later, when the first ambulance arrived.There wasn't much the paramedics could do: IV fluids, oxygen, and some gentle compression around the bullet's point of entry. But that was enough. Alex had been rushed to St. Dominic's, where surgeons had removed the bone fragments and put a graft on the artery. He had been in the operating room two and a half hours.And now he was looking almost as if nothing had happened. As the nurse came into the room, he closed the book and settled back into his pillows. Diana Meacher knew that this was his last night in the hospital. He had been here for ten days and tomorrow he was going home. She also knew that she wasn't allowed to ask too many questions. It was there in large print on his file:PATIENT 9/75958 RIDER/ALEX:SPECIAL STATUS (MISO).NO UNAUTHORIZED VISITORS. NO PRESS.REFER ALL INQUIRIES TO DR. HAYWARD.It was all ver BIOGRAFIE Horowitz, Anthony (GB): Anthony Horowitz, geb. 1956 in Stanmore (England), ist einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren Englands. In Deutschland ist er vor allem für seine Jugendbücher um den Helden Alex Rider bekannt. Neben zahlreichen Büchern hat er Theaterstücke und Drehbücher (u. A. Inspector Barnaby ) geschrieben. Taschenbuch / Paperback.
Ark Angel
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, in Englisch, Puffin Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
Ark Angel: The sniper`s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angel-the first luxury hotel in outer space-is a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them. Englisch, Taschenbuch.
Ark Angel
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, in Englisch, Speak.
Ark Angel Horowitz, Anthony, The sniperas bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angelathe first luxury hotel in outer spaceais a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them.
Ark Angel (Alex Rider) (2007)
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, vermutlich in Englisch, Puffin.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, LIBROS TOBAL.
Puffin, 2007. Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. The snipers bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angelthe first luxury hotel in outer spaceis a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them.
Ark Angel (Alex Rider, Band 6) (2007)
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, Band: 6, vermutlich in Englisch, Puffin Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht, akzeptabler Zustand.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, AHA-BUCH GmbH [51283250], Einbeck, Germany.
Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sg - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time from #1 New York Times bestselling author! The sniper s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angel the first luxury hotel in outer space is a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them.From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. Books.
Ark Angel (Alex Rider, Band 6) Horowitz, Anthony (2007)
ISBN: 0142407380 bzw. 9780142407387, Band: 6, vermutlich in Deutsch, Penguin Books, Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Taschenbuch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, Nachdruck.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, book_broker_berlin.
Reprint Puffin Books, 2007. 352 S. Taschenbuch, Maße: 19.3 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.78 cm Sprache: Englisch ISBN: 0142407380 EAN: 9780142407387 Bestell-Nr: 661045002 Bemerkungen: Alle Bücher & Medienartikel von Book Broker sind stets in gutem & sehr gutem gebrauchsfähigen Zustand. Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. . Neuwertig, Festpreisangebot, Bestes Angebot.
Ark Angel (Alex Rider, Band 6) (2007)
ISBN: 9780142407387 bzw. 0142407380, Band: 6, in Deutsch, Puffin Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, Nachdruck.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Broker GmbH, [4351601].
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