I have read Point Blanc, the second book in the series of Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
It is a criminal/spy book series in 8 parts. The first book “Stormbreaker” was in 2006 filmed with Geoffrey Sax as the director, with actors and actresses like bill Nighy, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry, Alicia Silverstone and Alex Petyffer as Alex Rider in the cast list.
Alex rider is a 15 year old boy, who lives with his housekeeper Jack Starbright after that his paternal uncle Ian Rider is getting killed by a Russian spy called Yassen Gregorovitch in a car crash. Ian rider worked as a spy at M16, and was investigating the Lebanese businessman and computer entrepreneur Herod Sayle and the new computer model “Stormbreaker”. The computer is being sent to every school and every student in Great Britain. But inside all the computers is a little but powerful and dangerous bomb. Alex begins at M16, and is sending to find Sayle and Gregorovitch, which he does in the end.
In the second book called Point Blanc, Alex is going to begin in a spy school in the Alps called Point Blanc. Before his journey to the school, he is living with a family and is disguised as the family couple’s youngest son. The father is the owner of the big business chain Friend, Sir David Friend. One day a woman who works in the spy school called Eva Stellenbosch, comes and taking Alex to a hotel where is supposed to stay to the term beginning. But one day Alex is getting drugged by his drink at dinner. Mrs. Stellenbosch photograph Alex naked and after she are putting him back to bed. When his waking up he found Mrs. Stellenbosch and the evil South African scientist Dr. Grief, who is planning to destroy the world with clones, by his plan called ”project Gemini”.
I think the book series is really good. It is good book for young adults. Anthony Horowitz has done a lot of books, and he has also written script for criminal TV-series like the Midsomer Murders and Poirot. I give the book 4/5 points.