Anthony Horowitz · 2003 · thriller

Anthony Horowitz's 2003 thriller. Holidaying in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider survives an assassin's bomb and glimpses a killer from his past - a trail that leads to Damian Cray, a beloved pop star and video-game billionaire with a monstrous secret. From the Riviera to Paris to Amsterdam, Alex races to expose a madman's plot to hijack the world's nuclear weapons.

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   South of France

   On holiday with his friend Sabina's family on the Riviera, Alex Rider survives a bomb that destroys their house - and spots the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, a ghost from his past, drawing him into a deadly new mystery.

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   Paris

   The clues point to Damian Cray, a beloved pop star and games billionaire. In Paris, at the glittering launch of Cray's new console, Alex gets his first close look at the man - and nearly dies for it.

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   Amsterdam

   At Cray's headquarters in Amsterdam, Alex uncovers Eagle Strike - a scheme to seize the US nuclear arsenal and wipe the world's drug-producing nations off the map - and must stop him before he strikes.