SuitabookSnakehead
Anthony Horowitz
- Reading
- Discuss refugees as people rather than merely as part of a spy plot, without revealing the mystery; the extracts do not establish the full intensity of the peril or exploitation.
- Themes
- Espionage and danger: Alex works as a teenage spy and accepts a dangerous assignment involving criminal gangs. The story clearly centres Alex’s competence and dangerous missions, but the extracts do not establish whether it ultimately celebrates, questions or condemns this pattern.
- Refugees and exploitation: The antagonistic gangs smuggle people and refugees into Australia for substantial payment. The plot presents people-smuggling as criminal exploitation and gives it a serious human dimension, though the wider treatment of refugees is not fully shown.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to fear and suspense.