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The books are about the life of Alex Rider, a 14-year old orphan schoolboy working for MI6. He is often referred to as a youthful James Bond.
The five books are:
In Stormbreaker, Alex's uncle, Ian Rider, dies mysteriously in a so-called car accident. Alex is then forcibly recruited into MI6 after learning that his uncle was an agent. In Alex's first mission, he stops a crazed Lebanese industrialist from infecting the United Kingdom's schoolchildren with a genetically modified strain of smallpox, and in that book he meets Yassen Gregorovich.
In Point Blanc he stops a South African scientist named Dr Hugo Grief from replacing the teenaged sons of influential people with clones of himself - the Gemini Project.
Skeleton Key sees him stopping a Chinese triad from sabotaging the Wimbledon tennis championships, and then finds himself in CubaAlternate meanings: see Cuba (disambiguation The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean, in between the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. To the north are found the United States and the Bahamas, to the west M, where he has to stop insane RussianThe term Russian can refer to: The Russian language Someone from Russia or with a Russian ethnic identity, see Russians Something of or pertaining to Russia. GeneralGeneral is a military rank, in most nations the highest rank, although some nations have the higher rank of Field Marshal. The title is used by land and sometimes air forces. In the navies of the world, the equivalent rank is Admiral. Its equivalent rank Alexei Sarov from using a nuclear weaponmushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 60,000 feet (18 km) above the epicenter. A nuclear weapon is a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power a single n to make Russia a communist stateThis article is about one-party states ruled by Communist Parties. For information regarding communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, or as a popular movement, see the main Communism article. In common speech in the.
In Eagle Strike he stops Damian Cray, a pop singer and fanatical environmentalist, from using the US nuclear armoury to destroy the world. At the end of that book he is told by the dying assassinThis article is about those who carry out assassinations and their history. For other meanings of the word assassin see Assassin (disambiguation Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald in a very public manner. In its most common use, assassin has come to Yassen Gregorovich that he must go to VeniceVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l if he wanted to find out the truth of his long dead father.
Alex follows Gregorovich's dying wish in Scorpia, and ends up stopping a criminal organisation using radio waves and nanotechnology to kill London's schoolchildren and sabotage the American-British Alliance. In the end he is told the truth of his father and is shot in the chest by a Scorpia sniper.