On a private island, near Cuba, Alex Rider faces his most dangerous challenge yet. The Russian General Sarov is hatching explosive plans to rewrite history and only Alex can stop him.
In the prequel to the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, contract killer Yassen Gregorovich is given orders to kill Alex. But Yassen knows a secret from the past that connects him to the fourteen-year-old spy. What is it that makes one of them choose to do evil, and what does ...