Eagle Strike( Series - Alex Rider )

this is the 4th in the series....here's a short review-

While on vacation in France with Sabina Pleasure, Alex Rider spots assassin Yassen Gregorovich, who killed Alex's uncle in the first novel Stormbreaker. When the Pleasures' vacation house explodes, Alex suspects Yassen is involved and sneaks onto his yacht. Yassen captures him and enters a bullfight as punishment. After escaping, Alex calls the number he found on Yassen's phone and hears pop star Daiman Cray's voice. He tells MI6 about this, but Alan Blunt refuses to follow up on it. When Alex tells Sabina about his double life, she does not believe him.

Alex meets a photographer named Marc Antonio in Paris; he reveals that Sabina's father was investigating Cray, and Antonio is killed shortly afterwards. Alex goes to Cray Industries in Amsterdam, where he hears Yassen and Cray conversing about a flash drive. Cray catches him as Alex tries to sneak away and puts him in a real-life version of the Gameslayer. Alex escapes and steals the flash drive. In response, Cray kidnaps Sabina and holds her ransom. Alex attempts to force Cray to release Sabina, but Cray outmanuvers him and forces Alex to hand over the flash drive.

Cray reveals his plan, code-named Eagle Strike: he will board Air Force One and use its missile room to launch nuclear missiles at major drug-running countries to eradicate the drug trade. After creating a diversion, he, Yassen, Alex, and Sabina board the plane at Heathrow Airport. Cray plugs in the flash drive and activates the missiles. He then orders Yassen to kill Alex and Sabina; upon Yassen's refusal, Cray shoots Yassen and then Alex. Alex, saved by Smithers' bulletproof jersey, gets up and pushes Cray out of the plane, where he is shredded to pieces by the engine. Cray's pilot attempts to abort the plane take-off, but, as the plane has already reached V1 speed, he cannot do so safely and dies in the process. Sabina presses the self-destruct button to destroy the missiles.

Before dying, Yassen tells Alex that his father John worked with him as an assassin and that, if he does not believe him, to go to Venice and find Scorpia. Alex is stunned at this revelation. At the end of the novel, Sabina tells Alex that she will be moving to San Francisco and then they share a kiss.