Russian Roulette (Alex Rider)

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The actor who plays him in the film, Damian Lewis, coincidentally shares his first name with the character who eventually kills Yassen, Damian Cray. John and Yassen work on two contracts together. During the first contract, John saves Yassen's life, expresses doubt that Yassen has it in him to be a killer, and suggests that he give up if he does not want to be one. The second contract takes place in Paris, where Yassen again refuses to kill the target, and admits to John that he does not want to be an assassin. As John and Yassen wait in an airport – Yassen planning to board a plane to Berlin and disappear – Yassen discovers a gadget from MI6 in John's luggage, and realises from this, as well as a number of details he noticed during the time spent with him, that John is an MI6 double agent working against Scorpia.

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Known board members include the acting chairman Zeljan Kurst, Major Winston Yu (deceased), Julia Rothman (killed), Max Grendel (murdered), Levi Kroll (murdered), a Frenchman called Jean Picoq, a Chinese man called Dr. Three who is the world's foremost expert on pain and torture, having written books about it, a Japanese man named Hideo Mikato (it is said in Scorpia that he has a diamond set in his teeth and in Snakehead that he has yakuza tattoos all over his body), and an Australian man named Brendan Chase, who abandoned his job as paymaster of the ASIS when he stole four hundred thousand dollars from them in a drunken haze (he was previously known as #5, as he never used his real name). Three other board members were mentioned to have died before the audience is introduced to the organisation; two of them were murdered and the third died of cancer. Two board members were killed over the course of the fifth novel. The first, Max Grendel, a former German spy and the oldest member at the time at seventy-three, decides to have no part in the operation Invisible Sword and attempts to retire, but is immediately killed by a suitcase of scorpions given to him by Julia Rothman. Rothman herself is then killed when Invisible Sword is foiled by Alex Rider and she is crushed to death by her terahertz transmitter. Major Winston Yu dies in the book Snakehead, having made the same mistake as Rothman by underestimating Rider, thus leaving the current roster at exactly half of what it was at its inception. Vosper is later widowed after the twins poison his wife, and is later still arrested by MI6, when it emerges that his wife told him the information he needed and he then sold it on to the twins. He returned to England in the 1970s and enjoyed a hugely successful music career, starting a band called "Slam!” (a parody of Wham!). This shot him to fame at once. At the end of the 1970s, the band split up and he started a solo career. His first solo album, "Firelight", went platinum and he won several awards and released the single "Something for the Children" at Christmas time in 1986, with all funds given to charity. Cray campaigned for several issues, including saving the rainforests, ending world debt and banning animal testing. His tireless work for charity earned him a knighthood in 1990. The rich superstar then branched into hotels, television, and even started developing "Gameslayer", the most advanced and realistic game console of its time. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)". Box Office Flops. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016 . Retrieved 18 May 2016.The Grimaldi brothers Eduardo and Giovanni (escaped; both deceased when their train exploded in Never Say Die)

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Anthony Horowitz (9 November 2009). "Alex Rider exclusive: Incident in Nice". The Times. London . Retrieved 15 November 2009. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism, Sarov felt betrayed and disgusted, at the way his country was heading. He promptly quit the army and moved to communist Cuba, which welcomed him outright. After Alex is saved by Sarov and kept in his home, Conrad expresses tremendous hostility towards him, wishing to shoot him. Throughout Alex's stay, Conrad often says to him that when Sarov disposes of him, he will shoot him or make his death very painful. As he contemplates his mission, the assassin - one Yassen Gregorovitch - reflects on his own journey from an ordinary schoolboy, growing up in rural Russia, to becoming a deadly assassin for hire. We follow the young Yassen from his peaceful childhood, dramatically disrupted an anthrax explosion and a government cover-up, through his time as part of Moscow's criminal youth and working for a ruthless crime lord,Although he does not physically appear in the novel due to his death in Scorpia Rising, Julius had a strong influence in Nightshade in which Alex goes undercover as him in the Gibraltar prison so he could get close to Freddy Grey and follow him to Nightshade. While there, Alex discovers that Julius had made enemies at the prison and created his own escape plan before being broken out by SCORPIA, which he uses to escape himself, along with Freddy. Alex later tries to "join" Nightshade to build trust, but has his cover blown by Dominic Royce. Nightshade then uses him to start a diversion away from their plan, claiming that he really is "Julius", and causing law enforcement to focus on finding him. Regarding the eighth book, Horowitz stated in 2008: " I've had second thoughts about telling Yassen’s story, which was going to be the subject of this book. I’m thinking of leaving that to number nine. Instead, I’ve got the beginnings of an idea set partly in the UK and partly in Africa." Skunk is the name given to a minor villain from Never Say Die. He is a henchman of the Grimaldi twins. Vosper is first seen at the Grimaldi twins' villa in Saint-Tropez, where he discusses part of Operation Steel Claw with the twins. From his information, Alex and MI6 at first believe the twins are trying to steal Mesoamerican gold artefacts from the museum, but bugging his office and the museum disproves this theory. Alex works out that it is, in fact, Vosper's wife, Jane, who the twins are going after, after seeing a poster for a Shakespeare play that Vosper mentioned at the villa.