Eagle strike anthony horowitz11/11/2023 Alex and Sabrina are wounded in the crash as well but survive.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:05:30 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA179301 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Unable to avoid a crash, Henryk dies of a broken neck when the plane careens off the runway. The impact kills Cray instantly and disables the engine, forcing Henryk to lose control of the plane. Eventually, the teens push Cray out a window, and he is immediately sucked into one of the jet engines along with a metallic trolley. ![]() Alex, who wasn’t hurt by the bullet because he was wearing an MI6-issued bulletproof jersey, joins the attack. Sabrina explodes in a rage, attacking Cray. Cray orders Yassen to kill Alex and Sabrina, but surprisingly, Yassen refuses. The flash drive activates the missile launcher, and Henryk prepares to fly the plane to Russia, Yassen’s home base. Yassen gives the two teens nuclear-proof hazmat suits, forcing them to fly to Heathrow Airport in London where Cray creates a diversion so Cray, Yassen, Alex, Sabrina, and a pilot named Henryk can sneak aboard Air Force One. Horrified, Alex and Sabrina apologize to each other and make up. Reneging on his promise immediately, Cray tosses Alex and Sabrina into a locked cellar, revealing his evil plan codenamed “Eagle Strike”: he is going to use Air Force One to launch twenty-five nuclear weapons at major drug-producing countries to eradicate the drug trade, unconcerned about the unnecessary loss of millions of innocent lives. Alex is briefly trapped in a real-life version of “Feathered Serpent,” but extricates himself, steals the flash drive Cray had been talking about, and escapes on a gadget-equipped bicycle.Ĭray kidnaps Sabrina and holds her hostage, forcing Alex to return the flash drive in exchange for her release. Alex sets out for the Amsterdam headquarters of Cray Software Technologies, where he overhears Roper and Cray discussing a flash drive, after which Roper is killed by a cascade of two million dollars worth of nickels – Cray’s ironic payment for services rendered. Worried, Alex travels to Paris to reach out to journalist Marc Antonio, who is killed by Cray’s men just as he finishes telling Alex that Cray has made some kind of deal with Charlie Roper, an American NSA agent. Unwilling to let the Cray clue go, Alex gets himself into the reception for a game console Cray’s company has launched, featuring a demo of the flagship game “Feathered Serpent.” The game’s violence is unprecedented a journalist who asks Cray pointed questions about it is later found dead. Defeated, he returns to Sabrina, confessing that he is actually a secret agent, only to realize that she is furious that he left her in danger and refuses to believe his story. However, when he contacts his MI6 handler Alan Blunt, Alex is told that investigating the connection between Yassen and Cray is out of the question. After being captured by Yassen’s goons, Alex is involuntarily entered into a bullfighting competition.Īlex escapes from the bulls and then, uses the phone he stole from the yacht to discover that Yassen has been talking to Damian Cray, a billionaire video game developer. Sabrina’s father, Edward, is injured, but rather than stay to protect her, Alex decides to sneak aboard Yassen’s yacht, convinced that Yassen is behind the attack. 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. 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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