content: Ark Angel is more laid back than the book before it, Scorpia. There is not as much action and the plot is not as complex. It is still a spy story with Alex on a mission to prevent an evil plot.Like other Alex Rider books, most of this takes place in England. It starts in a hospital after Alex has been shot. There he meets a young boy and saves him from an eco-terrorist group. The group is secretly owned by the boy's father, Nikolai Drevin, and was used as a diversion. The real goal was to blow up a space hotel and wipe out all the information the CIA had against him.Nikolai plans to send up a rocket with a bomb on it to blow up the space station and have it crash to Earth. The launch pad is located on an island owned by the British so the CIA seeks the help of MI6. Alex is sent by MI6 to the space station and repositions the bomb so the station blows-up in space, saving hundreds of people.