#Eagle strike tv#
He explains to Alex, via a new flatscreen TV and webcam installed at Alex's house in Chelsea, that if he does not surrender himself and the flash drive, Yassen will kill Sabina, and then hunt down everybody Alex knows, before finally killing Alex.
In response to Alex stealing the flash drive, Cray captures Sabina at a hospital when she goes to visit her father, and holds her for ransom. A pursuit breaks out between Alex and Cray's men across the streets of Amsterdam, which Alex narrowly survives, thanks to a bicycle laden with gadgets (including heat-seeking missiles in the handlebars, an oil slick in the water bottle, a magnesium incendiary flare in the front light, a smoke screen in the wheel pump, an ejector saddle, puncture-proof tyres and magnetic clips), courtesy of MI6 gadget-master Smithers. Alex manages to escape and steals Cray's flash drive. Roper is then trapped in a room, and two million dollars worth of nickels (owed to him by Cray as part of their deal) is poured on top of him, both paying and killing him.Ĭray catches Alex as he tries to sneak away and puts him in a real-life version of Feathered Serpent.
#Eagle strike software#
Alex sneaks into Cray Software Technologies' headquarters in Amsterdam, where he hears Roper and Cray talking about a flash drive, before they start arguing about the deal. Antonio is killed by Cray's men, while Alex manages to escape. Antonio reveals that he has been investigating Cray and a deal he made with a man called Charlie Roper, an American NSA agent. He then locates a journalist named Marc Antonio, a friend of Edward Pleasure's, in Paris. His suspicions about Cray grow as the next day Alex hears about the death of a journalist who questioned Cray, at the launch, over the violence of the game, which is set in Aztec times and involves science fiction themes, implying that their gods were aliens. Alex manages to escape from the bullfight and discovers that the man Yassen was recently in contact with was a billionaire pop star-turned environmentalist, named Damian Cray.įailing to convince MI6, Alex starts his own investigations on Cray and attends Cray's launch of a new gaming system called "Gameslayer", and its flagship game, Feathered Serpent, in which he participates in a demonstration.
Convinced it was Yassen, Alex locates him on a yacht but is captured by Yassen's associate, Franco, and Yassen sends him to fight a bull in a bullring.
Later, the house that Sabina and her family are staying in explodes, injuring Sabina's father, Edward, in the process. Once escaping, Cossack thanks his partner for saving him before heading back to civilization.Īfter the events of Skeleton Key, Alex Rider is on holiday in the south of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her parents, where he spots Yassen Gregovich at the beach and follows him, but stops after a close encounter that endangers him. Changing his position, Hunter manages to hit the black widow and take out the target with a single shot from his sniper rifle, leaving Cossack with a scar on his neck. However, a black widow spider lands on the neck of Cossack, compromising the mission. Locating him, they prepare to take him out from his secret hideout before he boards a helicopter. In a prelude chapter that takes place fifteen years before the main series, two unnamed assassins (referred to as Hunter and Cossack) travel through the Amazon jungle in search of their target, a major drug lord known only as 'the Commander'.
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