He gets out and survives, but then he is then kidnapped by a mysterious group, who took him to a room where he is waterboarded for information. The market is blown up whilst he is on it. Alex is led to a floating market, the House of Gold, where he hears Gunter shooting a weapons dealer, whose body Alex find after he sells him a gun. Unlike in most other missions, Alex's friend and guardian Jack Starbright demands to come along to keep an eye on him, as well as Derek Smithers being sent from MI6 to co-ordinate the mission. This gives Alan Blunt a ruse to send Alex on a mission to Cairo to investigate the new head of security Erik Gunter, believing he might have something to do with Scorpia. Alex follows the sniper and is able to send the helicopter and the sniper who is escaping in it crashing into the Thames. One of the shots hit Tom Harris' (Alex's friend) leg, causing minor injuries. This causes them to suspect an attack at the Cairo International College of Arts and Education in Cairo, Egypt, where many wealthy children are sent.Īt Alex's school, a sniper who is placed on top of a nearby building takes a shot at Alex's classroom. In Britain, MI6 scientists find Kroll's corpse, which was found floating in the River Thames. Scorpia decides that the best way to start the ball rolling would be for a body leading MI6 to Cairo, where the main action will happen, to be found, and Kurst decides to kill another Scorpia board member Levi Kroll, who opposed the plan initially and is shot in the neck by a sniper. His death is faked with a remote-controlled car, a duplicate of the one he was driving for escape, which contains a dummy in the front, being sent over a cliff which is released from a barn soon after he drives into it. They hide a gun in the prison library for Julius along with instructions, enabling him to get out of the gates by taking his psychiatrist hostage. Julius is hellbent on revenge over Alex for what he did in Point Blanc.
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Razim is studying the issue of pain, with the aim to come up with a measurable unit of pain, naming it after himself, by torturing all kinds of members of society, with a teenager being the top of his wish list, as he explains when exposing a French agent to the same experience.Īt a secret prison in Gibraltar, Scorpia manages to free Julius Grief, one of Hugo Grief's clones from Point Blanc who is also Alex's look-alike. The plan is that he will be killed, threatening to expose it, hence ruining the British reputation, unless the Elgin Marbles are returned to Greece.
The plan requires Scorpia to build up a file, codenamed Horseman, on the subject of Alex being used as a spy by the British government for a disgraceful act. He assigns the mission to a new Scorpia member, Abdul-Aziz Al-Rahim, known as Razim for short, who suggests blackmail, attempting to ruin the British reputation with the rest of the world. MI6 found out about the visit and tried to capture him due to a snitch who was given a change of identity in exchange, but Scorpia agents in the museum (disguised as visitors) help Kurst escape. He is promised €40 million, half in advance. Zeljan Kurst, former leader of SCORPIA, is asked by Yannis Ariston Xenopolos, a Greek billionaire suffering from terminal cancer, to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Scorpia Rising is the 9th novel in the Alex Rider series, followed by Never Say Die and the prequel Russian Roulette Story
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