Five weeks after Scorpia Rising, Alex Rider is in San Francisco, struggling to move on from losing his best friend and guardian, Jack Starbright. Then a mysterious email arrives—just three words—that rekindles hope: Jack could still be alive. Alex heads to Egypt to search.
But Scorpia isn’t done yet. A tangled conspiracy is unfolding, centered on the theft of an advanced military helicopter, pursued by mafia-raised twin brothers, and known as Operation “Steel Claw.” As Alex tracks clues from a secret fort in Egypt to a luxury South of France yacht and finally to an abandoned Welsh mine, he must piece together the connections—or risk becoming the next target.
Razor-sharp espionage, high-speed peril, and shocking revelations await as Alex races to save Jack—and stop a devastating new plot.