This month I read Alex Rider – Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz. It starts out as Alex retuning to school with a cover up story of being out sick for 3 weeks. Then going on a mini tangent after school by finding the hiding place of a drug dealer that comes to the school and using a nearby construction crane to grab the boat and drop it in front of a police station. Then he finds himself in front of the chief of the MI6 in England again for a new mission. The MI6 was suspicious of a man named Dr. Hugo Grief who is the headmaster of a Swiss boarding school for troubled boys. After a cover name and cover story was made, he is sent to the school, at first glance it doesn’t seem off, but the boys are. One day they are troubled and don’t care what anyone thinks of them, the next day their quiet, hardworking men. Alex does a little searching, and finds that Dr. Grief is a madman, sick person who’s master plan is immortality by cloning, he cloned himself into the form of babies, then had them grow, and then Grief bought the school for a very specific reason. He would take in troubled boys of a certain age in, then replaced them with his clones that a master plastic surgeon changed there faces. Will Alex stop this himself? Or will he need a little help along the way.
What I loved about this book is the nonstop action and great descriptions just like the first book. The spying action and dialogue that says a lot but doesn’t give it all away. I would definitely recommend this book to read if you like actions and suspense, but you should read book 1 first.