Although he is now on alert, it still shocks everyone when the house of the Pleasure family explodes, supposedly from a gas leak. The main action of the novel picks up with Alex relaxing in the south of France with the family of his friend Sabrina Pleasure – a holiday that is interrupted when Alex spots Yassen Gregovich, the assassin who killed Alex’s uncle, on the beach. The rescued assassin thanks his partner as they prepare to leave. The other assassin saves the mission by lining up his shot in a way that both kills the target and hits the spider. At the last moment, one of the assassins finds a black widow spider on his neck and is paralyzed by the discovery. Two assassins have found a key player in the drug trade in the Amazon jungle and set up their sniper rifles to kill him before he can escape by helicopter. The novel opens with a prologue that takes place fifteen years before the main plot – before Alex Rider had been born.
In the process of stopping this doomsday scenario, Alex uncovers new information about his late father and also deepens his relationship with a close friend. When Alex’s holiday is disrupted by the attempted murder of his host, the young man is forced to investigate the activities of a ruthless billionaire intent on making the world a better place by deploying twenty-five nuclear bombs around the world to put an end to the drug trade.
#ALEX RIDER BOOK 4 SERIES#
Eagle Strike (2003) is the fourth novel in British author Anthony Horowitz’s young adult spy series about teen MI6 spy Alex Rider.
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