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Korean War
IN 1950, just 5 years before the author was born, the Korean War began. -
Developed Polio vaccine
In 1955 the Polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk. -
Author Anthony Horowitz born.
Point Blank author Anthony Horowitz was born April 5, 1955 in the United Kingdom. -
Alex Rider compared to James Bond.
Throughout the book Alex Rider is being compared to James Bond and his first movie came out in 1962 titled Dr. No. -
StormBreaker first novel of Alex Rider series
StromBreaker was written in the UK in the early 2000's on September 4th. Then later came out in the US on May 21st 2001. -
Assassinations
Billionaires Michael J. Roscoe and Major Viktor Ivanov were assassinated by a guy named The Gentlemen.Both men had 14 year old sons that attended the same school. -
Blunt and Alex
Blunt informs Alex about the principal at the school that he will soon attend. Alex is there to figure out why both billionaires were assassinated and if they were somehow connected. -
Alex with the Friends and going undercover.
Alex is staying with the Friends and is impersonating their son who is acting bad and is planning to attend the school, Point Blanc due to discipline reasons. Blunt, Alex's boss for MI6 switched Alex and the Friend's son that was originally supposed to attend Point Blanc. -
Alex realizes the school is an ordinary school.
When Alex finally goes to the school he doesn't notice anything weird or unusual. A few days later he realizes something suspicious, so he starts to investigate. -
Alex gets in trouble
While investigating he finds a secret passageway to upstairs so he goes and later finds out that the third floor is just like the first. Later that night he tries to leave and contact MI6 and gets caught. When he gets caught Dr. Grief tells Alex about his secret plan to rule the world with the clones that he built. Later Dr. Grief cloned Alex and put Alex into a cell where he would stay forever. -
Alex vs. Alex
When MI6 finally come they get all of the clones and all of the children but one clone and one child. Both of them were the characters Alex. The clone started chasing the original Alex on top of a building and pulled out a gun. Alex the clone shot and grazed the original Alex and he got up in pain. The building caught on fire and shook. The gun went out of Alex's had and fell. There was another rumble and a huge hole opened up. One of the Alex's fell into the building. -
Alex lives
The building that one of the Alex characters fell into caught on fire. The Alex that fell into the building died. The other Alex climbed down what was left of the building and connected up with MI6. As we all know the protagonist in this story is the original Alex Rider, the one that lived. -
MI6 comes to the rescue
The next day Alex Rider used a gadget that a friend of his made and he uses it to get out of the cell. When he escaped the cell he contacted MI6 and told them to come as soon as possible. -
Al Qaeda attacked US
Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization in the Middle East attacked NY in the US on September 11, 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3y3Qh8R1s -
When were other books in the Alex Rider series written
Crocodile tears- In the UK it came out on November 12th, 2009. In the US it came out on November 17th, 2009. Another book was Eagle Strike. It came out on September 4th, 2003 and in the US on April 12th, 2004.
