Customer Reviews
Fantastic book, should be a film - By: Kevin Walker, 25 Oct 2008 
Fantastic book should be made into a film. This the 2nd book takes Alex on another great adventure. I prefer Alex Rider to Harry Potter now, its more real Life.
Alex Rider 2.. Anthony Horowitz - By: Charles Noades, 23 Oct 2008 This the second book proved to be as good as the fisrt book Stormbreaker. It should also be made into a film, although a new actor would be needed.
5 out of 5 Alex Rider - By: Steven Fincher, 15 Oct 2008 The second book & second adventure for Alex Rider. This should be turned into a film, it would be great & as good as a Haryy Potter film.
Alex Rider 2. A classic. Anthony Horowitz - By: Carol Aldridge, 15 Oct 2008 Why this was not made into a film is beyond me. Its a great book, plenty of action & very real life. I would recommend you read Stormbreaker before reading Point Blanc as the stories sort of follow on.
alex rider - By: Sid Lynch, 12 Sep 2008 Alex Rider, the youngest spy ever recruited & forced into service by MI6--Great Britain's premiere espionage agency, returnsin POINT BLANK with a vengeance. Only a few days have passed since Alex's last adventure when he helped catch the man responsible for murdering his uncle, Ian Rider, who had also been a spy. His excuses, a doctor's note no one quite believes, have barely been made before he's spirited off by Alan Blunt & Mrs. Jones, the head of Special Operations. Two deaths of rich & powerful men, one of them a personal friend of Blunt's, have triggered an investigation into the matter of those deaths. One man was killed violently while the other, a VERY careful man, apparently died by an unfortunate accident. The common denominator: both men had problem children, sons that were sent to a new schoolin France called Point Blanc. Blunt assigns Alex to infiltrate the school on a Search & Report mission. Once there, Alex discovers that the boys attending the school are all eerie, all acting like little puppets who answer every command of the creepy Dr. Hugo Grief & Mrs. Stellenbosch. In no time at all, Alex Rider fourteen year old spy extraordinaire is once more facing a grim & certain death if he doesn't use every ounce of cunning & intelligence he possesses.
The pacingin POINT BLANK rivals the breakneck speed shownin STORMBREAKER. The story yanks the reader along, as if daring him or her to keep up. Although the book is written about a fourteen year old spy, the prose is keen & precise, rivaling any of thatin today's thrillers. The book can be enjoyed by young readers as well as adults, & for the very same reasons. The action sequences are some of the best, tight & intricately planned. Horowitz stays just this side of SF & blends the effect neatly into the spy story. His villains are definitely of James Bond caliber, unique & attention-getting while at the same time vile & loathsome. Alex's tools of the spy trade, delivered by his very own Q-type spy inventor, are neat & plausible. Getting to see SAS soldier Wolf (from the first novel, STORMBREAKER) again was great. It seems Horowitz is going to create a world for his young spy & keep it interactive, weaving threadsin one book that will come to fruitionin successive novels.
POINT BLANK is a wonderful novel of action & suspense. Any reader waiting anxiously for the release of Vin Diesel's new movie, XXX, or the new James Bond film will definitely find a storyin this book to meet the driving excitementin those properties.
