Eagle Strike (Silent Reading Book)

Alex Rider is back once again to save the world; Anthony Horowitz has Alex Rider fighting crime for the 4^th time in Eagle Strike. This is the 4^th thrilling adventure out of the 8 books in the series. The story begins in the south of France when Alex is at the beach with his friend Sabina and her parents. Alex is peacefully tanning on the beach when suddenly a large yacht approaches to the docks. Out of the corner of his eye, he spots Yassen on the boat (the man who killed Alex’s uncle). Later on, Alex follows and spies on Yassen, he finds out that Yassen was talking to Damian Cray on the phone. Alex was shocked, why would the world’s richest, famous singer, and caring man be talking to an assassin. Nothing made sense, until later that afternoon when Sabina’s summer house exploded. Sabina’s father was in the house and came out alive, however he was severely injured. After the house had exploded, Alex found a news article on Damian Cray written by Sabina’s father (Sabina’s father was a journalist). Alex could now put the puzzle pieces together; Damian Cray was working with Yassen since Sabina’s father was going to expose Cray’s evil plan. This is why Cray sends Yassen to kill Sabina’s father.

After the whole situation in France, back in London, Cray released a new game system called the “Gameslayer”. Alex knows Cray is going to cause trouble for the world. Because of this, he goes to MI6 and tells Alan Blunt (head of MI6) about Damian Cray and his evil side. The MI6 does not believe Alex since Cray is a peace activist and has done many good deeds in his life. Now Alex does not have the government’s help and has to solve this problem all by himself. Further along the story, Alex realizes what Damian Cray’s evil plan is, to release a nuclear attack on large drug producing areas of the world. Through his game system “Gameslayer”, he manages to hack Air Force One with a pen drive to launch the US’ nuclear missiles. In the end, Sabina pushes Cray out of the airplane and tumbles into the turbines. Alex saves the world once again.

In my opinion, I absolutely 100% recommend this series to people who like adventure books because this will keep you at the edge of your chair until the very end!