"'Why keep trying? You've made four attempts at escape since I've arrived here.
Surely you don't think you're going to get out?'
'Hope. We all need hope here Yassen, even you.'
'Hope will not free you.'
'That's what the wire cutters are for'"
It's been two weeks since Yassen Gregorovich "died". For some reason, unknown to him, MI6 chose to save him. At least, that's how it would seem. Robbed of a noble death protecting Alex Rider, Yassen has been slung into a high security Prison Camp.The only reason he's still alive is that his government will not let the British execute him. Yassen is a P.O.W. at a camp that contains some of the most deadly men on the face of the planet. It's there that Yassen meets Nickolay, a twenty year old hit-man who, in his own words, specialises 'In kicking ass and taking names'. In government terms, political terrorism. Nickolay changes Yassen's outlook on life with his wide sense of humour, pride, bravery and above all, hope. Then Nickolay hatches a plan that he claims "Will make the perps of the Great Escape hang their heads in shame". Will Yassen dare to hope again for freedom? Will the plan work out or will it lead to recapture like the rest of Nickolay's escape ideas? What does the Russian government demand in return for Yassen's death warrant?
Why not wait and find out?
10/1/08
"'The ball is in motion'
'Wait, I thought I was the ball'
'No, you're the Eagle'
'I thought Yassen was the Eagle?'
'No, Yassen's the Osprey'
'What the hell is an Osprey?'
'It's a type of bird'
'With wings?'
'No, with fucking scales! Of course it has bloody wings!'
'There's no need to be so rude.'
'Obviously it has wings if it's a bird! What sort of idiot doesn't clock that!?'
'I'm not an idiot!'
'No, you're a special kind of idiot who's too stupid to know he's an idiot!'
'Sorry but you've completely lost me'"