Scorpia Rising Sparknotes
The group named Scorpia is at it again. This time, they are doing a job for a guy named Yannis Ariston Xenopollos. He is a Greek billionaire and is sick with cancer. He will die soon and he wants one more job done. This leads to Alex tracking the people that work for Yannis and the multiple devious plans he has cooking including a scientist named Razim. There are many very important objects in Scorpia Rising including, the Elgin Marbles, a Land Rover and dynamite, and salt.
The book opens with Zeljan Kurst, the member leading this operation, walking to Yannis Ariston Xenopollos waiting for him in the British Museum. Yannis has a job for Scorpia. He wants them to steal the Elgin Marbles. Mr. Xenopollos is a rich and devoted man, he always gets what he wants, and he has nothing to loose. ☺ He has nothing to loose because he is dying and will not live long: “Kurst had once been the head of the Yugoslav police force, and he had always been interested in the way the prisoners had looked at him just before he executed them. He could see the same things right here. The Greek had …show more content…
accepted death. All hope was gone” (Horowitz 9). He had nothing left but thirty five billion dollars and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. He wanted to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece and was willing to do it any means necessary.
Another important object is the Land Rover filled with dynamite.
After escaping Scorpia from an MI6 safe house, he goes back to his apartment and finds a note. The note says that his Jack, his nanny/guardian, was taken. That is when the classic oh-no-what-do-I-do moment set in ☺: “Then Alex saw the letter pinned on the bedroom door. A white envelope with his name written on it. His first thought was that it wasn’t Jacks handwriting” (Horowitz 279). He has to go to a tomb in the City of the Dead to save Jack. He is then kidnapped. He is taken to the house of a man named Razim in the Sahara Desert. Razim then proceeds to torture Alex. He attaches sensors to Alex to measure his pain. Jack was also taken to the house to torture Alex. Razim let Jack “escape” in a Land Rover. Jack does not know that the vehicle is filled with dynamite. Razim proceeds to blow up the Land Rover to collect data on
Alex.
The final significant object is salt. Yes, salt. ☺ Once Jack blows up, Alex escapes. Alex’s MI6 team moves in on Razim’s house. All of Razim’s men die in a firefight but no one can find Razim. Alex sees him on a suspension bridge. Alex then confronts Razim and the fight each other. The bridge is old and deteriorating and unsafe. Mid-fight, the bridge collapses and Alex manages to hang on. The story is not so great for Rizam. He falls into a pile of salt that he uses for his compound and burns to death: “Something horrible was happening to Razim. The salt had penetrated his skin, working its way through the pores. It was as if he was being cooked alive inside the huge pile” (Horowitz 390).
Scorpia was at it again and as usual, it was good. Nothing Scorpia does is good but that is why there is Alex. He is an intelligent and cunning young man. He always gets his job down no matter what it takes or whom it takes. I believe I should get an 8.6.
The book opens with Zeljan Kurst, the member leading this operation, walking to Yannis Ariston Xenopollos waiting for him in the British Museum. Yannis has a job for Scorpia. He wants them to steal the Elgin Marbles. Mr. Xenopollos is a rich and devoted man, he always gets what he wants, and he has nothing to loose. ☺ He has nothing to loose because he is dying and will not live long: “Kurst had once been the head of the Yugoslav police force, and he had always been interested in the way the prisoners had looked at him just before he executed them. He could see the same things right here. The Greek had …show more content…
accepted death. All hope was gone” (Horowitz 9). He had nothing left but thirty five billion dollars and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. He wanted to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece and was willing to do it any means necessary.
Another important object is the Land Rover filled with dynamite.
After escaping Scorpia from an MI6 safe house, he goes back to his apartment and finds a note. The note says that his Jack, his nanny/guardian, was taken. That is when the classic oh-no-what-do-I-do moment set in ☺: “Then Alex saw the letter pinned on the bedroom door. A white envelope with his name written on it. His first thought was that it wasn’t Jacks handwriting” (Horowitz 279). He has to go to a tomb in the City of the Dead to save Jack. He is then kidnapped. He is taken to the house of a man named Razim in the Sahara Desert. Razim then proceeds to torture Alex. He attaches sensors to Alex to measure his pain. Jack was also taken to the house to torture Alex. Razim let Jack “escape” in a Land Rover. Jack does not know that the vehicle is filled with dynamite. Razim proceeds to blow up the Land Rover to collect data on
Alex.
The final significant object is salt. Yes, salt. ☺ Once Jack blows up, Alex escapes. Alex’s MI6 team moves in on Razim’s house. All of Razim’s men die in a firefight but no one can find Razim. Alex sees him on a suspension bridge. Alex then confronts Razim and the fight each other. The bridge is old and deteriorating and unsafe. Mid-fight, the bridge collapses and Alex manages to hang on. The story is not so great for Rizam. He falls into a pile of salt that he uses for his compound and burns to death: “Something horrible was happening to Razim. The salt had penetrated his skin, working its way through the pores. It was as if he was being cooked alive inside the huge pile” (Horowitz 390).
Scorpia was at it again and as usual, it was good. Nothing Scorpia does is good but that is why there is Alex. He is an intelligent and cunning young man. He always gets his job down no matter what it takes or whom it takes. I believe I should get an 8.6.