Eagle Strike
Second edition cover
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| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Alex Rider series |
| Genre | Adventure, Spy novel, thriller |
| Publisher | Walker Books (UK) |
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Publication date
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4 September 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 388 pp (first edition, paperback) |
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| OCLC | 122264679 |
| Preceded by | Skeleton Key |
| Followed by | Scorpia |
Eagle Strike is the fourth book in the Alex Rider series written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2003 and in the United States on April 12, 2004. It is set mostly in Southern France, Paris, Amsterdam, and London.
While on holiday in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure, Alex Rider runs into the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, who killed Alex's uncle in the first novel Stormbreaker. When the Pleasures' holiday home explodes in a supposed gas leak, Alex suspects Yassen is involved and sneaks onto his yacht. He comes incredibly close to shooting Yassen, but Yassen out thinks him, captures him and enters him in a bullfight as punishment. After escaping, Alex calls a number he found on Yassen's mobile phone and hears pop star Damian Cray's voice. He tells MI6 about this, but Alan Blunt, head of the MI6 refuses to follow up on it as he believes it would be politically wrong if the press ever found out that MI6 were investigating Cray. Alex tells Sabina about his double life as a spy, but she does not believe him and refuses to speak with him.
Alex meets a photographer named Marc Antonio in Paris; he reveals that Sabina's father was investigating Cray, and Antonio is killed shortly afterwards by a death squad. Alex sneaks into Cray Industries in Amsterdam, where he hears Yassen and Cray talking about a flash drive. Cray catches Alex as he tries to sneak away and puts him in a real-life version of Feathered Serpent, a new video game developed by Cray Software Technology. Alex escapes and steals Cray's flash drive. A pursuit breaks out between Alex and Cray's men, cutting across the streets of Amsterdam, which Alex narrowly survives. In response to Alex stealing the flash drive, Cray kidnaps Sabina and holds her for ransom. Alex attempts to force Cray to release Sabina, but Cray outmaneuvers him and forces Alex to hand over the flash drive. Both Alex and Sabina are thrown into a jail cell, where Sabina apologizes to Alex for not believing him.
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