Anthony Horowitz · 2002 · thriller

Anthony Horowitz's 2002 thriller. Teenage spy Alex Rider, on loan from MI6 to the CIA, is sent to a remote island off the coast of Cuba called Skeleton Key. There a rogue Russian general, nostalgic for the lost Soviet empire, has smuggled a nuclear bomb - and means to detonate it to change the course of history. From Wimbledon to Miami to the Caribbean, Alex is the only one who can stop him.

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   London

   After foiling a plot to rig the tennis at Wimbledon, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is loaned by British intelligence to the CIA - a quiet assignment, he is promised, merely to help two American agents pose as a family.

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   Miami

   In Florida, Alex meets the two CIA agents who will pose as his parents, and together they set out by sea for a mysterious island where a Russian general has retreated beyond the reach of any government.

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   Skeleton Key

   On the island of Skeleton Key off Cuba, General Sarov guards a stolen nuclear bomb, dreaming of detonating it to shatter the new Russia and restore the Soviet Union - and only Alex stands between him and the end of the world.