Crocodile Tears

Anthony Horowitz

Mar 2010 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Simon Prebble

About this audiobook

Alex Rider thinks he has completed his final mission for MI6. But when a journalist threatens to expose his past, he is forced to return to his life as a teenaged spy.

MI6 agrees to protect Alex in return for his help investigating a high-profile laboratory specializing in modified plant genes. Now Alex is up against a con man who plans to create a catastrophe with a genetically engineered virus to profit through a disaster-relief charity.
In order for Alex to stop the virus from sweeping across the country, he’ll have to brave gunfire, explosions, car crashes, and dangerous mercenaries—then come face to face with the deadly mastermind behind it all.

About the author

Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series. The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014.