![]() ![]() Roper is then trapped in a room, and two million dollars worth of nickels (owed to him by Cray as part of their deal) is poured on top of him, both paying and killing him.Ĭray catches Alex as he tries to sneak away and puts him in a real-life version of Feathered Serpent, a new video game developed by Cray Software Technology. At this point, Charlie Roper, a third man, and Cray start arguing about the deal they had. Alex then sneaks into Cray Industries' headquarters in Amsterdam, where he hears Yassen and Cray discussing a flash drive. Going to France with Jack, Alex meets a photographer named Marc Antonio in Paris he reveals that Sabina's father was investigating Cray, before he is killed shortly afterwards by a death squad. ![]() ![]() This increases Alex's suspicions of the man (hatred of losing and arrogance), which only sharpen when the journalist who questioned Cray about video game violence is killed in a hit and run. He does surprisingly well at the demonstration, but Cray makes him lose on the final level. He then discovers the powerful graphics of Gameslayer for himself his character is himself, digitally rendered into the game. Cray explains that the games, regardless of violent content, will keep its players away from committing real violence.Īlex is then put forward to play Feathered Serpent, against his will, and comes face to face with Cray. Cray displays his arrogance when questioned by a female journalist, who is confused about why the Gameslayer games are violent, when Cray himself is an avowed pacifist. Together, they go to the Pleasure Dome, an attraction erected just for the Gameslayer demonstration, and see Cray talking about his game system and the flagship game, Feathered Serpent, a science fiction game that portrays the Aztec pantheon as aliens. After noticing that the Gameslayer manufacturer (Cray Software Technology) bears the same initials as the terrorists who allegedly attacked him and the Pleasures when they were in France (Carmaux Sans Touristes), Alex and Jack resolve to investigate, but not before receiving a heavily-modified bicycle from Smithers. She discovers that Cray is unveiling a new games console, called the Gameslayer it is stated to be the most powerful and advanced gaming system in the world, more so than the competition, hence its name. He then tries to explain his suspicions about Cray once again, but Alan Blunt refuses to follow up on it on the basis that he believes it would be politically wrong if the press ever found out that MI6 were investigating Cray.įrustrated, Alex then confides his suspicions in Jack Starbright. Sabina leaves Alex, refusing to speak with him again.Īfter Sabina leaves, Mrs Jones bring Alex inside, explaining that he would have compromised the service if they had exposed themselves to Sabina. He tries to tell Sabina about his double life as a spy, but she does not believe him when he brings her to the Royal and General, where all the staff there deny that MI6 was ever based there. After escaping, Alex calls a number he found on Yassen's mobile phone and hears pop star Damian Cray's voice.īack in London, Alex tries to research Cray but does not find anything unbecoming on him he finds material on his music career, and current business and philanthropy careers. He comes incredibly close to shooting Yassen, but Yassen outthinks him, captures him and enters him in a bullfight as a penalty. When the Pleasures' holiday home explodes in a supposed gas leak, injuring Sabina's father in the process, Alex suspects Yassen is involved and sneaks onto his yacht. Returning to the present day, after the previous story, Alex Rider runs into the assassin Yassen Gregorovich (who killed Alex's uncle previously) while on holiday in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure. In a dilemma as to what to do, the sniper lines up his shot just as the drug lord tries to board a helicopter and fires, killing both the spider and his target. As one of them sets up his sniper rifle, the second alerts his partner to the presence of a black widow spider on his neck. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret - and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined.įifteen years before the main series, two agents are sent to assassinate a drug lord. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. Reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is relaxing in the south of France until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, MI6 don't want to know. ![]()
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