New Paperback BRAND NEW Copy. Softcover Fine/showing trace shelfwear. 4th book in the Alex Rider Series from British mystery & suspense writer Anthony Horowitz (1955 -) who wrote for both young & adults. The Alex Rider Series follows the adventures of a 14-year-old boy became a spy & member of the British Secret Service, MI6. This episode, with antecedents stretching back some 15 years to Brazil, takes plance in Southern France, Paris, Amsterdam & London, involves antagonist Yassen Gregorovich. Volume follows Alex Rider, and his going rogue from MI6 to foil Sir Damian Gray, a celebrity madman, from launching U.S. nuclear missiles at drug-producing countries throughout the world. Series of 11 adventures, concluding with a 12th; the Russian Roulette, dedicated to the life of Yassen Gregorovich.