Point Blanc in supposedly a finishing school for boys around the age of 14 and of extremely wealthy parents who can afford to fork out 10,000 a term. The evil scientist dr. grief and his huge, muscular assistant Eva Stellenbosch run the academy. .
Alex Rider is a spy for M16, who has been given the assignment of posing as the son of a very wealthy supermarket owner.
While at the academy, Alex discovers Dr. Grief's evil plan to take over the world by taking 16 genetically modified boys and transforming them, with the help of plastic surgery, to look, speak and act like the actual boys who came to the academy.
Grief plans to send the boys back to their parents, so that when his body has died, he can live on in their bodies and take over the world from every angle-politics, film, television, music, industry and media.
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I liked the way the book way really suspenseful and kept you guessing. It has a really mysterious story line, if you"re into that kind of book. .
I really wouldn't have chosen it to read, I prefer other teenage books, but I will try and read the sequel to Point Blanc because I"m interested now. .
The most memorable scene for me is the last- the cliff hanger. Alex has just run into a clone of himself, who tries to kill him. The story ends with one Alex (the real or clone) climbing down a ladder to safety. A great cliff hanger for the end of the book, that gets you wanting to read the second. .
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