In this adventure, Alex rider may be on his last mission… permanently. Or so we think…

Although Alex loses his best friend, he still pushes forward to defeat Scorpia. Alex is found and locked up in the middle of the desert for many days until Jack thinks that she’s found a way out. She thinks that there’s a loose bar in her jail cell. But it’s all a trick. It’s staged. Jack is now sitting on 30 lbs of high explosives…And the remote to detonate the explosives is in the hand of someone Who hates him. And that someone also has a plan to assassinate the secretary of state.