Scorpia Rising (Alex Rider)

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However, as Alex's MI6 life starts to take a toll on him, it also places somewhat of a strain on their relationship - Jack is always very worried and upset that Alex's life is constantly being put in danger. Alex and Frederick are in Delhi Station Hospital, Tidworth Camp, Wiltshire, at a Ministry of Defence barracks, three weeks after Leap of Faith. At Alex's school, a sniper who is placed on top of a nearby building takes a shot at Alex's classroom. He feels sorry for the Numbers, despite animosity with William, but feels that he cannot help the Numbers. When Alex discovers they’ve planned a mysterious attack on London, he will stop at nothing to take them down.

In this novel Blunt asks Alex Rider to investigate Hugo Grief at the Point Blanc Academy in the French Alps, under the alias of Alex Friend. The next day they went out for a surfing trip, when Alex is knocked out by a massive wave and Sabina gives him CPR. The chase leads them to a nearby airport, where the girl escapes through a hole in the fence to a waiting helicopter; the boy, however, is captured by Crawley’s team and contained at the Rio headquarters of BOPE: Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, or the Special Operations Police Battalion. Despite numerous hints, Alex Rider falls into his impostor's trap, and is chased through the science laboratory at gunpoint, where a stray bullet ignites some of the gas and causes a fire. He takes a piece of string and a paper carrier full of black paint powder from the art room and leaves, under the pretence of a toilet break.They run through the tube station and emerge on the other side, getting into a taxi and losing the Nissan in the process.

It had destroyed dozens of businesses, corrupted politicians and civil servants, engineered several major ecological disasters, and killed anyone who got in its ways. Mrs Jones and Crawley are put under house arrest, pending trial, and lose everything, blaming them for using Alex and possibly killing him. The two first met while working as ball boys/girls at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and they quickly became good friends. He and Frederick go to Sheriff’s office; when the key does not work the first time in the office door’s lock, Frederick threatens to shoot Alex, but the door eventually opens. She acknowledges that she would let Alex say yes or no to any further MI6 work and would respect his decision either way.He does not recognise Sir Christopher and Lady Susan as his parents, but knows them as people and acknowledges his real name.

He realises that Frederick is the only way to find Nightshade, but if the plan happens, the prison will be massacred. The guards, and Sheriff, are ignorant of his true identity; as a consequence, the guards are sadistic.Alex realises that the Numbers have been through the same “raised as warriors from birth” life as himself. Wanting to stop the needless deaths of four police officers, Alex arms himself with the shattered neck of a bottle of spirits and punctures the boat, causing Sebastien to lose his aim and miss the boat.