num_pages: 288
description: Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider, reluctant M16 spy, is back at school trying to adapt to his new double life...and to double homework. But M16 have other plans for him. Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link. Both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy - an exclusive school for rebellious rich kids, run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high on an isolated mountain peak in the French Alps. Armed only with a false ID and a new collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening there. Can he alert the world to what he discovers before it is too late?
language: English
title: Point Blanc
titlecomplete: Point Blanc (Alex Rider, #2)
characters: Mrs Jones, Alan Blunt, Dr Grief, Jack Starbright, Alex Rider, Smithers
genres: Fiction, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Teen, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Espionage
ratings_count: 58718
places: French Alps, London, England
series: Alex Rider
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
category: Grade 6-9, name: Askew's Children's Book Award
publisher: Walker Books