Alex Rider is back in his 7th novel, Snakehead. This book picks up with Alex in Australia (where he crash-landed at the end of Ark Angel.) This time, the Australians want to get a piece of the action. They use Alex to infiltrate a snakehead (a criminal organization found in Southeast Asia) to find out how they are smuggling people into Australia. We finally learn more about Alex's parents and how they died, as Alex finally gets to meet and work with his godfather. All in all, it was a good book, although I preferred Ark Angel. My main gripe is that Alex always knows the answer to everything. He beats the snakehead's highly accomplished (and much more skilled than Alex) martial-arts expert, knows just what to do when his boat goes over a huge waterfall, and puts together some spare electrical wires (in the middle of the jungle, no less) to bypass a missing battery and send a signal out to MI6. It gets kind of obnoxious when the 14-year-old needs no help, and always saves the day, but it's still a fun read.
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