Anthony Horowitz · 2007 · thriller

Anthony Horowitz's 2007 thriller. Washed up off Australia, teenage spy Alex Rider is recruited by ASIS to infiltrate a snakehead - a ruthless gang that smuggles drugs, weapons and people across Southeast Asia. Posing as a refugee, Alex is trafficked from Bangkok through Jakarta and across the sea toward Australia, uncovering a plot to trigger a tsunami and murder a summit of the famous.

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   Sydney

   Washed up off the Australian coast, teenage spy Alex Rider is recruited by ASIS and paired with his godfather Ash for a mission into the snakehead gangs that smuggle drugs, weapons and people across South East Asia.

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   Bangkok

   In the slums and back alleys of Bangkok, Alex and Ash pose as refugees to buy their way into the snakehead run by Major Winston Yu - a courteous, crippled monster whose organisation answers to Scorpia.

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   Jakarta

   Smuggled by sea and locked in a container aboard the freighter Liberian Star bound for Jakarta, Alex discovers the gang's true cargo - a stolen British bomb codenamed Royal Blue - and that he alone may be able to reach it.

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   Darwin

   The bomb is run down to Darwin on Australia's northern coast, where a summit of world leaders is gathering offshore and Yu's plan moves into its final stage, with Alex hunted through the outback to keep him quiet.

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   Dragon Nine

   Out in the Timor Sea, on the rusting oil platform Dragon Nine, Yu means to lower Royal Blue onto the fault line far below - a detonation that would raise the sea bed and look to the world like a natural disaster.

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   Reef Island

   The target is Reef Island, where the summit meets: a tsunami to drown the delegates and the coast beyond, and blame it on the sea. Alex has one chance, alone and far from help, to stop the countdown.