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The book starts with Zeljan Kurst, leader of Scorpia, being asked by Yannis Ariston Xenopolos to return the Elgin Marbles back to Greece. He assigns the mission to new Scorpia member, Abdul-Aziz Al-Rahim, known as Razim, who suggests blackmail, attemping to almost ruin the British reputation with the rest of the world. Razim is studying the issue of pain, with the aim to come up with a unit of pain, naming it after himself, by torturing all kinds of members of society, with a teenager being the top of his wish list for a new subject. The plan requires Scorpia to build up a file, codenamed Horseman, on the subject of Alex being used as a spy by the British government, threatening to expose it, hence ruining the British reputation, unless the Elgin Marbles are returned to Greece. In a secret prison in Gibraltar, Scorpia manages to free Alex's look-alike from Point Blanc, Julius Grief, one of Hugo Grief's clones, who is hellbent on revenge over Alex for what he did in Point Blanc. Scorpia also decide that the best way to start the ball rolling would be for a body leading MI6 to Cairo, where the main action will happen, to be found, and Kurst decides this is Levi Kroll, who opposed the

Author

Anthony Horowitz

Publisher

Penguin Young Readers Group / Walker Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781464005770