Review on Alex Rider: Point Blanc (book 2) by Anthony Horowitz

By Aarav Kumar

Warning: Spoilers ahead

Hey guys, today I am going to do a book review on Alex Rider: Point Blanc, and if you liked the book Alex Rider: Stormbreaker, you are going to like this book. I hope you enjoyed my informational text on the Dell XPS 13, if you haven’t seen it yet just click on this button.

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The second book of Alex Rider is about Alex Rider (obviously) on his second mission. Alex Rider has been sent from MI6 to infiltrate the exclusive Point Blanc Academy.

So, this is a bit crazy, right? Well, so let me tell you what it is about in proper detail.

Alex was back in school and even though he was right next to his friends he was feeling alone. Like, he was isolated from the rest of them. He then sees a white Skoda and he got angry. The white Skoda was the car of a man who everyone called Skoda (because of his car). Skoda sold drugs to the kids in Brookland (the school of Alex Rider) and got away with it. Alex was very angry with him and did something quite remarkable. With his bicycle, he followed Skoda to a construction site. The construction site was very close to a harbor. There were not many boats in the river of the harbor but there was a houseboat, in which Skoda went in. Alex then glimpsed inside and saw a lot of lab equipment, he suspected Skoda made his drugs in here. Alex then climbed up a crane and with the crane, he picked up the houseboat and crashed it into a building.

He then was called inside MI6 and was sitting in front of Alan Blunt (who was the person who assigned Alex his first mission and was the Head of MI6) and Mrs. Jones (who was the Deputy Head of MI6), who were (as usual) unsmiling and had no emotions. They asked Alex to investigate the exclusive, but mysterious Point Blanc Academy. It turns out this man named Michael J. Roscoe had sent his child to Point Blanc Academy, but when he came back, Roscoe fought with him. Roscoe then contacted Alan Blunt and had asked him to investigate the situation. After Roscoe contacted Alan Blunt, he was killed by a contract assassin. Blunt found this suspicious, and as he always says, “When people see coincidence, I see a conspiracy, that’s my job.” Blunt then wanted to send Alex into Point Blanc Academy.

It turns out Point Blanc Academy is for… problematic kids. And by problematic I don’t mean people who have a problem with their brains, I mean people who are drug addicts, juveniles, etc. And Point Blanc Academy’s job was to “fix them up”. Point Blanc Academy was a school that could only be bought by the richest of the richest. Take Michael J. Roscoe, for example, he is 7th of 8th richest man on earth!

So, when Alex reaches Point Blanc Academy he finds out something VERY crazy. So, the head of this school; Dr. Grief, was sending all the children to cells and replacing them with his clones. You heard what I said, Grief had managed to clone HIMSELF. So, he would send the clones (who had been made to look exactly like the rich children) to the rich parents, and they won’t suspect a thing because they had been EXPECTING a change in them. Now, you must be wondering why Roscoe died. Well, the reason he died was that he was one of the only people who noticed the change in his son, he didn’t feel that the clone was his son, so, Point Blanc Academy killed him. '

So, the reason Point Blanc Academy wanted to send clones was to take over the world.

I would give this book 4.5 stars out of 5 stars because Point Blanc was very thrilling and action-packed.

Thank you again and hopefully, I will give the next book; Skeleton key 5 stars, so until then, goodbye!