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Summary: point blank
Review: Point Blank is the second in the Alex Rider series, after Stormbreaker. Point Blank is about a 14 yr. old boy named Alex Ride (duh) who is a secret agent for M16, the FBI in England. Alex is forced to go to a school to become a better boy but he actually goes as a spy. He goes as Alex Friend and pretends like he is all messed up. Then one night he hears his only friend at the school yelling and he sees the adminastaters at the schools carrying him down to the basement (where they are forebidden). Alex follows them and finds out the secret to the perfect boys. To find out the ending you have to read Point Blank!!!
This is a great book for girls and boys. It's a mystery/adventure. If you liked Stormbreaker, you'll love Point Blank. I liked how you went from one adventure from the next. You'll love POINT BLANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Point Blank
Review: ...Point Blank was a good book. It's one of the best books I have ever read. Anthony Horowitz made a good sequel to this book called Stormbreakers. When I saw the cover of this book I thought that there would be alot of action. I was right! This book is my favorite book. He always has a different personality for every character. Alex, the main character, has all different sort of attitudes...
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Summary: Point Blank
Review: A fifth grade reader: Point blank is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Alex Rider trying to stop a mad man , Dr. Grief, who clones himself in the form of fourteen -year-old rich boys. My favorite part is when Alex uses a ironing board to slide down the mountain and to escape from being dissected. I liked Point Blank because once you started to read you couldn't stop. It's so action packed; it will keep you guessing. The moral of the story is that Alex kills Dr. Grief and stops his evil plan to rule the world. I bet you'll love it.
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Summary: Point Blank
Review: Alex races down the steep rocky mountain on a snowboard that he had made but snowmobiles trail right behind him. He hears gunfire. The drivers had machine guns and are firing at him. Bullets zip past his face. He tries to focus on what he needs to do but just then he flies into the cold snowy air and his mind goes blank... POINT BLANK is the spine tingling sequel to Storm Breaker but this time its much more serious. In the beginning of this life risking adventure Alex gets a call from MI6 to come over to their office and have a talk about some classified information. Once he got there he sat down and they told him that he was going on another mission. At first Alex thought that Gref was joking but Alex could see in his eyes that he wasn't at all.
As you read this fantastic book you will be on the edge of your seat wondering and waiting for what happens next. Throughout this book you will also absolutely want to turn the page because it is one of the greatest of Horoetzes books. To sum up what I have said to you "go to your local library today and get one of the greatest books published PONT BLANK. By,
Greg Novak
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Summary: If you start the book, it will be impossible to put down!
Review: Alex Rider is a 14 year old "James Bond" character who is quick witted, intelligent and is a martial arts blackbelt!
Alex's unique personality and the clockticking nature of the book keeps you reading till the last page.
I really enjoyed this book because it is full of suspense,action packed & it's a book that sticks up for young people.
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Summary: A sequel shaken - not stirred
Review: Alex Rider is the youngest member of Britain's elite M16 spying agency. He didn't think it would be too bad, but it's hard to be James Bond when everyone thinks that you are too young to carry a gun. After barely surviving his last adventure Alex is back at school - but M16 has plans for Alex. Shipped off to Point Blanc Academy, Alex is about to face a dangerous foe. Dr. Grief - the academy director - has plans for Alex, plans that place him in danger. Alex has to figure out what is going on - before he becomes the latest subject in Project Gemini. This book is one of the best sequels that I have read for a long time. I loved the opening action scene where Alex manages to cause a lot of damage with a crane and a barge (I won't ruin it by saying anymore) - and the rest of the book kept up with that opening scene. I found that this book was more gripping than the first because it was tricky - just when you thought you had it figured out the author changed the rules. Girls and guys alike will enjoy this fast-paced, action-packed novel. I can't wait until the next book in this series comes out. I have also recommended these books to my brother who reads Tom Clancy and he enjoyed them too. The best part about this Alex Rider adventure is that the end will leave you thinking about the book for a long time (but if I tell you why it will ruin the ending so you have to read this book for yourself).
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Summary: Assignment: Certain Death
Review: Alex Rider, the youngest spy ever recruited and forced into service by MI6--Great Britain's premiere espionage agency, returns in 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 and Mrs. Jones, the head of Special Operations. Two deaths of rich and 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 school in France called Point Blanc. Blunt assigns Alex to infiltrate the school on a Search and 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 and Mrs. Stellenbosch. In no time at all, Alex Rider fourteen year old spy extraordinaire is once more facing a grim and certain death if he doesn't use every ounce of cunning and intelligence he possesses. Anthony Horowitz is a novelist and TV writer. In addition to the two Alex Rider novels he's written (STORMBREAKER and POINT BLANK), he's also penned THE DEVIL AND HIS BOY, a historical thriller, THE DEVIL'S DOOR-BELL, NIGHT OF THE SCORPION, THE SILVER CITADEL, and short story collections, DEATH WALKS TONIGHT and MYTHS AND LEGENDS. He's written television scripts for POIROT and MIDSUMMER MURDERS, and recently created two television series for the BBC. The pacing in POINT BLANK rivals the breakneck speed shown in 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 and precise, rivaling any of that in today's thrillers. The book can be enjoyed by young readers as well as adults, and for the very same reasons. The action sequences are some of the best, tight and intricately planned. Horowitz stays just this side of SF and blends the effect neatly into the spy story. His villains are definitely of James Bond caliber, unique and attention-getting while at the same time vile and loathsome. Alex's tools of the spy trade, delivered by his very own Q-type spy inventor, are neat and 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 and keep it interactive, weaving threads in one book that will come to fruition in successive novels. There could be, perhaps, a little more dialogue in the book. Reading narration can be fun, but a reader's ears stay pricked for the conversations a character has. Of course, Alex isn't exactly overly verbose, but other characters could talk to him as well. And there needs to be a little more about Jack Starbright, Alex's housekeeper. So far, all the reader knows is that she is from America. What brought her to Great Britain and why does she continue to stay? Maybe the author has even more secrets to unveil. POINT BLANK is a wonderful novel of action and 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 story in this book to meet the driving excitement in those properties.
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Summary: Frightening, well-written, very readable
Review: Anthony Horowitz is a well-renowned TV screenplay producer who adapts "Poirot" amongst other things. The Alex Rider series feature a 14-year old spy who was sucked into working for MI6 when his uncle was murdered. This book is even better than the first (Stormbreaker) with a truly terrifying villain and action all the way through. Watch out - maybe a little too intense for a nine year old. Strongly recommended.
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Summary: Better Than Stormbreaker
Review: Before I read Point Blanc, my friends told me that STORMBREAKER was better. i do have to admit, the first 8 chapters of POINT BLANC were just a little boring, and I started to agree with my friends. But, as soon as Alex Rider starts his daring mission at Point Blanc Academy, I changed my mind. There he almost gets shot down by vicious gaurds, discovers secret passageways, discovers an evil mastermind, almost gets surgically cloned, flies down a mountain on a makeshift snowboard, gets hit by a grenade, and kills a beautiful woman. Action and suspense all the way! And after you are done with POINT BLANC, you can read the even better Alex Rider Adventure, SKELETON KEY!!!
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Summary: Action packed and Lotsa Suspense!!
Review: Comments: This book was not as chair gripping as the first, at least not until later. It's plot was much like the plot of its prequel. Still it remained suspenseful and action-packed. A few surprising twists are on the road, but much of it is rather predictable, especially the main plot. Although there does seem to be some sort of prejudice in the book from the author. The first book and this one had their villians to be African or black. Is that a coincedence? Or is it racism? All in all, it was a rather satisfying book. Story: Alex Rider has become somewhat of a spy. After his first suspenseful and dangerous mission, he returns to his normal life, now craving the life of a spy. Longing to go on another adventure. His desire turns to reality. A school for rich kids who have problems, as in shoplifting, being expelled, etc., turns into something very suspicious. Alex goes in under cover as a student. He notices nearly all the students are different, yet the same. He has to find out what is going on and what the plot of an insane evil man is before it's too late. What Alex discovers may be more than he expected and more sick than thought.
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