Posted by
Conservative Swordfighters Club on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:52:32 PM
A fun James Bondian adventure story for kids around 14 years old.
One scene one might consider liberal, or at least “non conservative”: Toward the end of the novel, hero Alex Rider, 14, is escaping from the villains’ compound and has only a short time to warn the authorities about a dastardly plot to kill thousands of innocent people all over England.
Alex (who can drive) sees a jeep he can commandeer. The guard is looking the other way. Alex happens to have a harpoon.
Which leads to this excerpt which I consider too “liberal” for my taste: “But Alex knew he couldn’t do it. Whatever Alan Blunt [Alex’s spymaster boss] and MI6 wanted to turn him into, he wasn’t ready to shoot in cold blood. Not for his country. Not even to save his own life.”
--Swordfish