Alrighttttttt, Horowitz is finally giving us action thriller. I thought I liked the last one the most, but I think this one tied or is just a little above. Alex can no longer trust MI6 to tell him the truth and joins the enemy, who have illuminating information on Alex's dad and his life before he died. Alex is becoming a little secret agent in this, and I enjoyed it. There was a bit more espionage and turning the script in this installment. I enjoyed the plot twists and am interested to see where we go from here.

I'm just asking once again for Horowitz to stop writing characters of color whose characterization is solely based on their race and stereotypes attributed to it. For example, a black person with vitiligo is still black--an autoimmune disease doesn't change that. (Don't get me started on the trend of making the bad guys have a disability.) And while the villain is the one who states this, there's no rebuttal. There's no inner monologue from Alex, no questioning. It's a harmful stereotype that erases culture and, in this story in particular, for NO reason.