Scorpia (Alex Rider)

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The Alex Rider series has sold over 13 million copies in English and is published in over 28 languages.

Alex ultimately foils McCain's plan, but as they escape, McCain kills Rahim, who Alex then kills and then ventures back to England. Meeting the Pleasure family again; Edward tells Alex about Jon Lucas, a young philanthropist who used to work for Rudolph Klein, the CEO of Real Time. The plan was for Alex to be with Julia Rothman, the leader of Scorpia's plan, to find where they were going to send the terahertz beams.There they meet with Wilbur White, a rich art dealer whose son had an accident while playing 'Eden Fall' Real Time's popular AR game. From Cornwall to Cuba, Venice to France, Alex Rider has travelled far and wide as a spy for MI6, facing danger and death at every turn. There are nine books in the series including Snakehead (2007), shortlisted for the 2008 Book Trust Teenage Prize.

In three assassination attempts, Yassen fails the first, John saves him in the second, and Yassen also fails the third. Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more.An SAS force sent to follow Alex assaults the launch site, and Alex uses the distraction to climb onto the balloon, closely followed by Nile.

He tells them that he didn't believe that he would make it in the world after all that Nightshade made him do and is glad that Alex was his friend. Alex survives by clinging onto the balloon while the platform with the terahertz equipment falls away. Jones and Alan Blunt tell Alex the truth about his father; he was an MI6 agent working as a double agent in Scorpia attempting to take down the organization.Months later, after being transformed into a skillful thief, attempts to rob a wealthy man named Vladimir Sharksvosky. Alex discovers that the Stormbreaker computers contain a lethal variation of smallpox and that Sayle plans to ruthlessly kill thousands of schoolchildren around the country with it. Drevin is killed and Alex is sent into space, moving the bomb to prevent the wreckage from entering the atmosphere. He encounters former Soviet general Alexei Sarov, who tries to adopt Alex and expresses ideas of a nuclear holocaust and world domination under communist rule. Meanwhile, as Alex discovers more about his father’s death, he has to make some difficult choices about his future: should he remain loyal to MI6, who have manipulated and lied to him, or join Scorpia as an assassin so that he can exact his revenge on those who betrayed his father?