I now have more of an understanding of this world and the main character Alex Rider.
#Alex rider point blanc series#
I really enjoyed the second book in this series much more than i did the first one, it just stepped itself up from the first one. The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd. Violence: Two or three chapters of intense, but non-graphic, action a gruesome operation is described, but doesn't actually happen.ĭrugs: Smoking is referenced Alex brings down a known drug dealer.įrightening/Intense Scenes: Creepy villain more than one character almost dies emotional intensity. Language: Three or four uses of the h-word one use of "bloody". Nudity: A teenage girl is said to be wearing a bikini more than once. Sex: Alex leers at a teenage girl in a bikini, but only in a "PG" way a brief reference to a man and woman who aren't married being in bed together. The Bad: It could have used a little more action. The Good: Anthony Horowitz's writing is great, as usual, and there was a real sense of menace and suspense throughout the novel. What secret could the director of Point Blank be hiding? Posing as the son of a wealthy businessman, Alex goes to the school, only to be weirded out by what he sees. Synopsis: After completing his first mission with MI6, teenage spy Alex Rider is sent on another quest: to discover the truth about Point Blank, a school for troubled youth. The only apparent connection between the two men is that they both had a son attending Point Blanc, an academy for the problem sons of billionaires in the French Alps run by a South African scientist, Dr.
In exchange for any potential charges being dropped, Alex is assigned by MI6 to investigate the motive behind the mysterious deaths of Roscoe and another billionaire, former KGB agent and head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, General Viktor Ivanov, who died when his private yacht exploded on the Black Sea. In London, Alex Rider ends up in trouble with the police for causing a large amount of damage to a new conference centre while trying to expose a drug dealer operating at Brookland School. Roscoe in an elevator shaft in his New York City office, arranged by a reputable contract killer known only as The Gentleman. The book opens with the death of American electronics billionaire Michael J.
The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001. Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex Rider series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. Point Blanc = Point Blank (Alex Rider, #2), Anthony Horowitz
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