The only apparent connection between the two men is that they both had a son attending Point Blanc, an academy for the problem sons of billionaires in the French Alps run by a South African scientist, Dr. In exchange for any potential charges being dropped, Alex is assigned by MI6 to investigate the motive behind the mysterious deaths of Roscoe and another billionaire, former KGB agent and head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, General Viktor Ivanov, who died when his private yacht exploded on the Black Sea. In London, Alex Rider ends up in trouble with the police for causing a large amount of damage to a new conference centre while trying to expose a drug dealer operating at Brookland School.

Roscoe in an elevator shaft in his New York City office, arranged by a reputable contract killer known only as The Gentleman. The book opens with the death of American electronics billionaire Michael J. The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001. Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex Rider series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. Point Blanc = Point Blank (Alex Rider, #2), Anthony Horowitz

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