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Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
3.0

Bad bois on a mountain. Posh kids with guns. Looks like a job for the worlds most reluctant part-time spy, part-time boy band member, part-time super model Alex Rider.
Anthony Horowitz charmingly dances around the sleazier parts of the spy genre, mostly keeping the misogyny to a minimum by mostly avoiding using female characters. I last listened to this under the influence of a migraine about fifteen years ago so I’d lost a lot of the details. I think it’s very good but does seem like a filler book between the marvelous Stormbreaker and the more back-storyey, epic quests in Space and fighting villainous assassin networks which come later in the series. Which is why I gave it three stars. Comparative to a lot of children’s’ books it’s probably nearer the four stars.
Although I do feel compelled to point out, like a wet blanket would, that’s not how cloning works. Don’t be so silly.