This follows a whole series of school visits where people have been a bit half-hearted about the idea…and I do try to listen to what my readers say! He travels by train to Moscow, where he meets his parents' friend, a Professor at a school, who betrays him and has him arrested. 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. With his plan in tatters, Grief attempts to escape by helicopter, but Alex climbs onto a snowmobile and speeds up a ramp.

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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. Alex is sent to a surgery where his organs will be illegally harvested, whilst Ash vanishes along with the Major. After Alex's cover is blown, Drevin learns that the CIA is gathering evidence against him and plans to retaliate by attacking the Pentagon. The lack of respect he received as a child due to being a black orphan left him obsessed as an adult with obtaining people's respect through any means possible. In the process of breaking out of the factory Yassen's father had been shot and had suffered severe injuries.He also has a large scar along his stomach, the result of his encounter with Yassen Gregorovich, a Russian assassin.

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The flat metal board falls on Rothman, crushing her to death, destroying the satellite and ending Invisible Sword at the same time. Cray takes the two teenagers with him when his men seize Air Force One, and shoots Gregorovich when the Russian refuses to kill the children. Sony Pictures Television's international and worldwide distribution divisions under Wayne Garvie and Keith Le Goy were attached to the film series. Portrayed as jolly and enthusiastic from his overweight appearance, it is often implied that Smithers is one of Alex's two only genuine friends at MI6 (the other probably being Ben Daniels). Yassen convinces them to rob a flat owned by Vladimir Sharkovsky, a wealthy businessman with whom he earlier overheard Dementyev converse with on the phone.As John and Yassen wait in an airport – Yassen planning to take a plane to Berlin and vaporize – Yassen discovers a gadget from MI6 in John's luggage, and subsequently discovers his true allegiance.

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Unable to get the right information, when Alex becomes friends with Frederick, he decides to escape with Frederick and then infiltrate Nightshade's base of operations, an abandoned military base in Crete. Alex later meets the agent again when Rahim kills Myra Beckett and saves Alex from falling into the pack of crocodiles.

Leo dies of the disease that night and Yassen continues on alone, narrowly avoiding getting caught by the police and escaping onto a train for Moscow. However, the Grimaldi twins soon give chase in The Midnight Flyer and desperately attempt to kill Alex with machine-guns, but Alex fills a drinks flask with leaking diesel fuel from the bus before throwing it into the funnel of the locomotive. Sabina Pleasure is a protagonist who made her first appearance in the novel Skeleton Key and has gone on to appear in Eagle Strike, Snakehead, Crocodile Tears, Scorpia Rising and Never Say Die. Grief was also portrayed as insane by deciding to kill Alex by using him as a live human dissection in a biology class for the clones. It had been a pretty useless precaution for the bacterium had already been released into the atmosphere.

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Yassen spends the next four months at Scorpia's training facility on the island of Malagosto before being given his first contract, which he is unable to carry out. The second and fourth books were adapted into a TV series in 2020 and 2021 respectively, this time starring Otto Farrant.Tom is revealed to be alive and they discover that Freddy only pretended to kill Tom to save his life and be able to infiltrate Nightshade again. Anthony Sean Howell, more commonly referred to as Ash (his initials), is a major character in Snakehead.