POINT BLANC
Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Walker Books (Paperback)
ISBN: 0-7445-5971-5
2002
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Point
Blanc
by
Anthony Horowitz
For first class thrills, spills and adventure, Anthony Horowitz can be safely said to have cornered the modern market. Influenced greatly by Ian Flemming's work, Point Blanc is the second novel in the series featuring the reluctant teenage-spy, Alex Rider, who is about to achieve more acclaim with the release of a star-studded movie, Stormbreaker in 2006 - an adaptation of the first Rider adventure.
When two multi-millionaires are killed,
MI6 become suspicious of the fact that both had sons at the reform college,
Point Blanc, run by a certain Dr Grief. Alex Rider is the same
age as the two boys and agrees, after some persuasion, to go under cover
at the college to see exactly what methods Grief and his staff members
employ to correct the seemingly maladjusted youngsters. What Alex finds
out is beyond belief and cannot be stopped. MI6 have sent him in alone.
Packed with gripping action from first
to last, this is a novel aimed at the "young-teen" market
that defies adults to put it down once begun. The writing is as tight
as one might expect from Horowitz, as author of stories that
include those told in the hugely successful TV series Foyle's
War, and are as filled with as many gadgets and as much mayhem
as anything the creator of James Bond might have come up with.
Deeply absorbing, fantastically outrageous
and completely unputdownable, Point Blanc is a novel to savour
no matter what age the reader may be.
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