Scorpia (Alex Rider)

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After the deaths of two billionaires, MI6 discovers a connection: the two men who died each had a son attending Point Blanc, a school for rebellious sons of billionaires located in the French Alps, owned by Dr.

In three assassination attempts, Yassen fails the first, John saves him in the second, and Yassen also fails the third.Scorpia has devised a deadly weapon – the Invisible Sword – to exterminate thousands of children in London and bring about the downfall of the powerful West. The nanoshells contain a powerful poison contained in a golden sphere, so the poison won't hit the heart until the right time.

They fake Alex's escape from MI6 custody to enable him to rejoin Rothman and learn the true location of the terahertz dishes, by having Smithers outfit Alex with a locator beacon disguised as a dental brace.In the fifth book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex travels to Venice to discover the truth about his past. In California Alex and Ben discover that White's son died because the AR showed him a bridge that wasn't really there.

Rothman reveals Scorpia's plan to destroy the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America; the demands to the Americans were deliberately made unreasonable to them. He is taken to Kenya where he learns that McCain will poison Kenya, killing its inhabitants and animals and collecting 'charity money' that he will collect for personal benefit. Unable to get the right information, when Alex becomes friends with Frederick, he decides to escape with Frederick and then infiltrate Nightshade's base of operations, an abandoned military base in Crete. As Alex leaves MI6's headquarters, he is shot by a Scorpia assassin in retaliation for his actions, and the story ends with Alex lying on the street seeing visions of his parents.Alex's cover is blown by Nightshade's client, and he is used as a distraction while Frederick, Sofia, and 'Number Eleven' try to kill many at St Paul's Cathedral. When the airstrike commences Alex, Ben and the numbers escape through an old mine while Lucas stays behind, choosing to die in the airstrike instead of going to jail. Drevin is killed and Alex is sent into space, moving the bomb to prevent the wreckage from entering the atmosphere.

He then manages to derail a steam locomotive with an improvised bomb (Thermos with diesel in it), thus killing his foes who were chasing after him in it. He hired an investigator, revealed to be the man who was murdered by Nightshade at the start of the novel. Before he becomes Vladimir's food tester, Sharksvosky forces him to play Russian Roulette to test his luck. Freddy meanwhile has been trying to get Number seven, who is actually Mrs' Jones' son William, to join Alex and him to free the Numbers from the teachers. citation needed] In New York an ex-CIA agent is murdered while investigating 'Real Time' a gaming company specialized in Augmented Reality.

Months later, after being transformed into a skillful thief, attempts to rob a wealthy man named Vladimir Sharksvosky. Born in 1955 in North London, he was educated at Rugby School and York University, and published his first book, Enter Frederick K Bower, in 1978. The series currently comprises fourteen novels, as well as six graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. An SAS force sent to follow Alex assaults the launch site, and Alex uses the distraction to climb onto the balloon, closely followed by Nile. He has won numerous awards, including the Bookseller Association/Nielsen Author of the Year Award, the Children's Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, and the Red House Children's Book Award.