Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)

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He encounters former Soviet general Alexei Sarov, who tries to adopt Alex and expresses ideas of a nuclear holocaust and world domination under communist rule.

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In Scorpia Rising, Smithers reveals that in reality, he was always privately opposed to involving Alex in MI6 in the first place; he believes that the world of spying is dangerous and dirty, and people like Ian Rider, who saw it as one big adventure, could easily get themselves killed. When Yassen shot Ash, his body armour meant that he was back on his feet in seconds, but this prompted Yassen to fatally shoot four other agents. Kurst owns and operates a funeral parlor business which has a secret room that serves as a conference room for Scorpia in London. He, in the same instance, further reveals that his obese identity that Alex knew him all along for was actually an MI6 disguise, a fatsuit. He showed Alex a pre-arranged charity appeal video that First Aid had made in a disused film studio, a convincing mock-up of a dead African village.Alex is then sent to a hospital in the Australian rainforest where he is to be used as an unwilling donor for illegal organ transplants, to pay for his damage to SCORPIA both in the 'Invisible Sword' project and on the Liberian Star. Julius Grief is first seen in Point Blanc, where he is an antagonist, and also in Scorpia Rising as the clone of Dr. He wore a crucifix in his ear, a sign of his supposed turn to Christianity during his prison sentence. She is described as slim, with tangled red hair, and a boyish, round face that "is always cheerful, even when in a bad mood". Although she is eaten by the crocodiles, only one thing of Myra is left: her foot, bitten off just above the ankle, in a shoe.

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The falling space station, guided towards Washington, would serve two purposes: destroy the Pentagon, with all its evidence against Drevin, and destroy the space station itself and claim some insurance. Since then, he rejoins Scorpia, kills many others, and then fails to kill Alex Rider after the young agent foils Stormbreaker, and in the end sacrifices himself for Alex, remembering how John saved his life once. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States, but more recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. Board member Levi Kroll expresses opposition to the plan in the meeting and, pointing a gun at Kurst, threatens to leave.

The prospect of learning more about his past lures Alex into working for ASIS, alongside Ash, investigating the ruthless Snakehead. However, he concealed a bitter, murderous and independent side that was, all in all, malevolent and villainous. He goes back and finds the boy and his crew, and they recruit him into their posse of street thieves. He hired an investigator, revealed to be the man who was murdered by Nightshade at the start of the novel.

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Jack Starbright is Alex Rider's closest and best friend, a 28-year-old American woman, originally Ian Rider's housekeeper and after his death Alex's legal guardian. When the many millions of pounds flooded in, McCain planned to steal it and hide out in Switzerland with his future wife, Myra Beckett. Yasha survives, but when he is questioned, a mouth injury leads him to pronounce his name as "Yassen.Yassen was at least partially instructed by Alex Rider's late father, Ian's brother, John Rider, an MI6 agent under deep cover working as an unspecified instructor for Scorpia on the Italian island of Malagosto. During the bout, his jaw was smashed up badly and suffered a botched plastic surgery operation in Las Vegas when attempting to get it fixed. An RAF jet is promptly launched, and fires two Brimstone missiles that home in on the beacon, killing Drake before a meeting of the Awakening can take place. He later joined the Parachute Regiment at Aldershot and served for three years, seeing action in both Northern Ireland and Gambia.

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Alex steals a horse, and parachutes with it out of Falcon's Edge, trying to make for the Shuja Cemetery (a prearranged meeting point for when the mission concludes). When Alex goes to Greenfields to investigate, he puts himself into a dangerous situation in which terrible events that follow.

McCain joined a partnership with GM scientist Leonard Straik and created a poisonous gene to be pumped into wheat crop fields in Kenya which would spread a horrible disease that could wipe out half of Africa. Grief would then send the clones back to the parents – assuming that any minor 'differences' between his clones and the originals would be taken as nothing more than the natural changes the boys would have gone through during their time away-, and when the parents died the clones inherit their businesses. In prison, he read the Bible, and talked to the prison chaplain, "a pompous fool who couldn't see past the end of his own dog collar" and took a course over the Internet, which allowed him to be ordained as a Reverend in an obscure church. Razim was chosen by Zeljan Kurst to run operation "Horseman", to deliver the Elgin marbles to Greece.