Alex Rider - Russian Roulette, English edition: The Story of an Assassin (Alex Rider, 10, Band 10) - Softcover

Buch 10 von 13: Alex Rider

Horowitz, Anthony

 
9780147512314: Alex Rider - Russian Roulette, English edition: The Story of an Assassin (Alex Rider, 10, Band 10)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 014751231X ISBN 13: 9780147512314
Verlag: Penguin US, 2014

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Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!

Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time from #1 New York Times bestselling author!

Alex Rider s life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger.

Every story has a beginning. For teen secret agent Alex Rider, that beginning occurred prior to his first case for MI6, known by the code name Stormbreaker. By the time Stormbreaker forever changed Alex s life, his uncle had been murdered by the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, leaving Alex orphaned and craving revenge. Yet when Yassen had a clear shot to take out Alex after he foiled the Stormbreaker plot, he let Alex live. Why?
 
This is Yassen s story. A journey down the darker path of espionage.
 
Like a James Bond for young readers, international #1 bestseller Anthony Horowitz delivers a blockbuster thrill ride.


From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Anthony Horowitz is a world-renowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. And he is, of course, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider novels, which have become bestsellers the world over, as well as spawned a major motion picture, a TV show, and a line of graphic novels. A master of the spy thriller, Anthony is the only writer authorized by both the Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming estates to write original Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, respectively. Anthony lives with his wife in London, England; they are parents to two grown boys. You can visit Anthony Horowitz online at AnthonyHorowitz.com.

Anthony Horowitz (anthonyhorowitz.com) is a world-renowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. And he is, of course, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider novels, which have become bestsellers the world over, spawned a major motion picture, and a line of graphic novels. A master of the spy thriller, Anthony is the only writer authorized by both the Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming Estates to write original Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels, respectively. Anthony lives with his wife in London, England; they are parents to two grown boys. Follow Anthony on Twitter @AnthonyHorowitz.

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PROLOGUE: Before the Kill

HE HAD CHOSEN THE hotel room very carefully.

As he crossed the reception area toward the elevators, he was aware of everyone in the area around him. Two receptionists, one on the phone. A Japanese guest check­ing in from his accent, obviously from Miyazaka in the south. A concierge printing a map for a couple of tourists. A security man, Eastern European, bored, standing by the door. He saw everything. If the lights had suddenly gone out, or if he had closed his eyes, he would have been able to continue forward at exactly the same pace.
Nobody noticed him. It was actually a skill, some­thing he had learned, the art of not being seen. Even the outfit he wore expensive jeans, a gray cashmere jersey, and a loose coat had been chosen because it made no statement at all. The clothes were well-known brands but he had cut out the labels. In the unlikely event that he was stopped by the police, it would be very difficult for them to know where they had been bought.
He was twenty-eight years old. He had fair hair, cut short, and ice-cold eyes with just the faintest trace of blue. He was not large or well built, but there was a sort of sleekness about him. He moved like an athlete perhaps a sprinter approaching the starting blocks but there was asense of danger about him, a feeling that you should leave well alone. He carried three credit cards and a driver s license, issued in Swansea, all with the name Matthew Reddy. A police check would have established that he was a personal trainer, that he worked in a London gym and lived in Brixton. None of this was true. His real name was Yassen Gregorovich. He had been a professional assassin for almost half his life.

The hotel was in King s Cross, an area of London with no attractive shops and few decent restaurants, a place where nobody really stays any longer than they have to. It was called The Traveller and it was part of a chain; comfortable but not too expensive. It was the sort of place that had no regular clients. Most of the guests were pass­ing through on business and it would be their companies who paid the bill. They drank in the bar. They ate the full English breakfast in the brightly lit Beefeater restaurant. But they were too busy to socialize and it was unlikely they would return. Yassen preferred it that way. He could have stayed in central London, in the Ritz or the Dorchester, but he knew that the receptionists there were trained to remember the faces of the people who passed through the revolving doors. Such personal attention was the last thing he wanted.

A security camera watched him as he approached the elevators. He was aware of it blinking over his left shoul­der. The camera was annoying but inevitable. London has more of these devices than any city in Europe, and the police and secret service have access to all of them. Yassen made sure he didn t look up. If you look at a camera, that is when it sees you. He reached the elevators but ignored them, slipping through a fire door that led to the stairs. He would never think of confining himself in a small space, a metal box with doors that he couldn t open, sur­rounded by strangers. That would be madness. He would have walked fifteen stories if it had been necessary and when he reached the top, he wouldn t even have been out of breath. Yassen kept himself in superb condition, spend­ing two hours in the gym every day when that luxury was available to him, working out on his own when it wasn t.

In fact, he was on the second floor. He had thoroughly checked the hotel on the Internet before he made his res­ervation, and number 217 was one of just four rooms that exactly met his demands. It was on the second floor, too high up t

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Verlag
Penguin US
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014751231X
ISBN 13 
9780147512314
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Anzahl der Seiten
432
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