THE ALEX RIDER books timeline
John Rider, no more than 26,
joins Special Operations.
Ash joins Special
Operations.
Alex born in
Alex Rider has a Taurus sign
for his birthday, possibly an April 20th birthday?
Wikipedia says birthday was
For date of Alex
birthday:
Skeleton Key has a scene in
which it seems to be summer early July and Alex says he’s 14 and three months).
This would indicate maybe
April 7 or so is his birthday.
Alex is christened?
Ash joins Scorpia?
DOUBLE AGENT-a short story
about Ash that takes place as the Riders, Alex’s parents, were married four
years. They are killed.
End of April. Alex’s parents
are killed. Alex is three months old. (MISSION
FILES says John died in 1988)
A few months after the death
of Alex’s parents, Ash leaves MI6 and goes to work for Australian SIS.
Alex is two when the Berlin
Wall comes down. 1989.
Alex learned karate from when
he was six years old (ARK ANGEL and elsewhere)
Jack comes to work for Ian.
Alex is about 7 years old. Jack meets
Ash when Ash visits
Ash visits two or three
times. Jack and Ash go out a couple of times.
Age 7: Alex plays hide and
seek with Jack at Christmas.
Surfing years ago. A week
spent in
Ian Rider had taken Alex
climbing in
Alex has been in
Alex spent the best part of a
year in
Shortly after his tenth
birthday, Alex spent time in
Age 10: Alex tried to boil an
egg in a microwave.
Age 11: scuba diving in the
Caribbean with Ian Rider for a week.
Age 12: For Alex’s 12th
birthday, Alex was given a Condor Junior Roadracer bike.
Alex has gone to
Age 12: “About two years
before Alex’s missions were recorded, Alex sorts out bully Michael Cook who
used to beat up Tom Harris.”
When Alex was 13 he went
scuba diving in
Alex has never been to
CHRISTMAS AT GUNPOINT (short
story)
Alex is 13.
It is the last Christmas Alex
and Ian spend together.
Ian is killed a couple of
months after Alex’s 14th birthday, the following Spring.
Alex and Ian spend “a couple”
of days on their own in Gunpoint,
Third day: they meet Sahara
Sands.
Fourth day: it snows again.
“Five months later” Alex
would be racing down the side of Point Blanc.
Fifth Day: the climax
The lap top had info about
the withdrawal of American troops from
Alex, “…in fact, I met Sahara
a couple of years later.”
STORMBREAKER (
Year: Book published in 2000.
Written before that so 1999 or 1998?
Day One
House in
Jack had come to the country
seven years ago (nine in the movie).
Day Two
Five visitors come to the
house including
Day of Funeral (Day Five?)
Ian is supposedly buried.
Day Six
Alex on bike: Condor Junior
Roadracer, cut down Reynolds 531 Frame
Brookland, maths teacher is
Mr Donovan.
Secretary of school: Jane
Bedfordshire, in her 20s.
Alex learned Karate from when
he was six years old.
Day Seven
Ian Rider had been on
missions in
When he was 7, Herod Sayle
saves an American couple in
Alex as Lester is supposed to
go to Sayle Enterprizes on March 29th.
Stormbreaker ceremony is to
be on April 1st. It seems to be a school day.
Nine or Ten Days of Training
(so Day 16 or 17, we’ll round
up to about 18 due to a day between seven and his start of training)
Training day one (or day 9 of
book)
p.65, the sergeant tells Alex
he has him for 11 days
“in the days that
followed…Alex learned map reading, radio communication, and first aid..”
“unarmed combat class,
assault course…”
“…by the end of the
week…” he cut his time to 17 minutes on
the course.
Wolf taunts and tries to humiliate Alex; Alex in
mess hall is tripped by Wolf.
Men sent on a day jungle
survival training course but Alex is not sent with them.
Day 8 of training. Day 15 of
book.
Killing House. Wolf tries to
make Alex fail and almost succeeds.
Day 9 to 10 of training. Day 16
to 17 of book.
RTI (RESISTANCE TO
INTERROGATION from KIDS’ NIGHT IN 2)
Short story
Horowitz claims to have
written it for “War Child” whatever that is.
Seems to take place over one
night some time during training and in the movie it seems to be at the end of
training.
STORMBREAKER book continued
Day 11 of training. Day 18 of
book.
Alex saves Wolf’s career by
kicking out of plane with parachute.
Alex meets Smithers.
Day 19
Alex arrives at Sayle’s.
Day 20
Stormbreaker game. Snookers
game.
Day 21
March 31st
Ian was here at over a week
The mine, capture…
Day 22
April 1
Page 288-the faked doctor
letter from Blunt says that Alex was
away for three weeks
Yassen kills Sayle and
disappears into the dying light.
POINT BLANC
The Gentleman is given the
job a week before day one. Kills the real Sam Green. Gentleman sends victims
flowers.
Day One
The last few months before
this, Paul Roscoe and father not getting along, worse.
Roscoe is killed.
Page 18—body discovered the
next day…
Page 19---“Two days later,
the killer boards a plane at JFK
Day Four (?)
Page 20—“Alex had missed two
weeks of school.” American Scholastic
version says “Three weeks.”
American Scholastic version
also says that three weeks ago Alex found out his uncle was a spy.
It is “the last weeks of the
term…”
Page 24—just 12 months ago,
Colin had been one of Alex’s best friends.
Crane adventure, Skoda and
Mike Beckett (met in prison) stopped
Day Five
Page 61—“Last December Vikto
Ivanov died…”
Point Blanc established 20
years ago…
Page 68---“Five days from
now” Alex will leave the Friend’s house and go the Academy
Day Six
The day after the meeting at
MI6.
It is supposed to be Fiona
Friend’s Easter holiday.
Day Seven
Day Eight
“After only two days…”
Day Nine
The third day at the Friend’s
house.
The gun incident.
Day Ten
The fourth day at the
Friend’s house. Riding a horse.
The train and tunnel
incident.
Day 11
Meeting Smithers in the
field.
Leaving the Friend’s house
with Stellenbosch.
Page 121—Alex had stayed at
the Marais district before.
Dinner with Stellenbosch.
Drugged. Examined. Alex bit his nails.
Day 12
Trip to and arrival at Point
Blanc.
Stellenbosch has worked for
Grief for 26 years.
Meets James Sprintz. James
has been here for six weeks.
Day 18
Page 154---the end of the
first week at Point Blanc.
The other boys were at Point
Blanc for 14 weeks.
Nightmare as he sleeps.
Late night: James captured.
Day 19
Alex up the chimney. Grief
shoots and kills Dr. Baxter.
Day 20
Another breakfast. Alex finds
the real boys.
Page 215—Grief came to
Day 21
Alex was to be dissected.
Page 228—Alex had only been
snowboarding three times in his life.
Alex’s escape.
Day 22
Day 23
Day24
Day 25—the time line on the
Alex Rider site says May 1st.
A few days later. We’ll say
three.
Page 270---Blunt tells Jones
that there is an interesting situation in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq. Alex
may be the only answer.
The American Scholastic
version says that Mr. Henry Bray, the principal, was concerned Alex missed the
last two weeks of the spring semester.
It had to be longer. Plus the dates do not always fit in with the
semesters of English schools in
“The school was empty now and
would remain that way until the summer term.”
The Alex Clone incident and
fight and death (?) of the Alex Clone.
From CROCODILE TEARS: the
fire happened “back in May.”
TEA WITH SMITHERS (Alex is
debriefed about Pt Blanc mission; meets Derek Smithers outside; following
Saturday has tea with him).
ALEX IN AFGHANISTAN short (?)
story
(Alex’s school has burned
down; a “few days” later he is flown to Cyprus, refueled on an aircraft carrier
in the south Mediterranean, and dropped into Iran and then picked up by Afghan
nomads to go into Afghanistan; say maybe seven days?)
THE MAN WITH TWO SHOES-short
story
The Science Wing is being
rebuilt. A politician named Jasper Milvain was going to speak at Alex’s school.
A supply teacher named Kevin Doyle tries to kill him.
A TASTE OF DEATH short story
(now called THE MAN WITH ELEVEN FINGERS)
(training has been two weeks
long)
(the Point Blank mission
ended three weeks ago)
(May slipped by and the first
day of June approaching)
(He had been chosen to play
left wing for the school’s first football team. He had struck up a friendship
with a boy of his own age – Tom Harris – and the two of them were talking about
spending the summer together in Italy. Tom’s older brother had a flat in
Naples. Even the weather was improving.)
Dentist. Cake incident.
POSSIBLE mission in
ALEX IN INCIDENT IN NICE,
FRANCE (Short story)
(Now called HIGH TENSION)
James Hale invites Alex to
Nice, France with his Aunt and Uncle. Alex goes parasailing, which he’s never
done before. The Stormbreaker incident and Point Blanc are mentioned. The driver of the boat has a stroke or heart
attack. Alex fights for control and lands in water, gets to boat, loses his
shirt and sandals.
Info from HIGH TENSION
version:
(in the rewrite, James Hale
is not the one who invites Alex but someone named Wilfred Sutton, who had a
brother, sister, and a dog named Olly, a black retriever, nanny named
Celestine).
Trip is for a weekend.
Incident happens on Sunday.
STORMBREAKER happened “just a
couple of months before” and POINT BLANC has happened, too.
SKELETON KEY
Day One
Cessna sinking.
Day Two
Alex playing ball. A Friday
afternoon. The weather caught between late spring and early summer.
The SCHOLASTIC version says
it was a Friday afternoon in May.
It has only been four weeks
since MI6 forced Alex to Point Blanc (does that mean four weeks have gone by or
two including the two he was there?)
A week ago there was a break
in at the All England Tennis Club and the
“parachute into
Alex may have been on or is
going to go on a short mission in
SIX WEEKS LATER…
Alex had spent four of those
weeks training with Walfor for ball boy.
(Alex had become good friends
with Sabina in the last couple of weeks…and has already been invited to her
family vacation in
Day One after the six weeks…
Blitz loses the game.
Day Two
Day Three
“…over the next few days Alex
seemed drawn to him almost as if by accident…”
“…two days after Blitz had
left
The follow and the fight.
Some more days go by…
possibly four days….
Approximately…the quarter
finals will be July 1st…so Alex leaves, then approximately four days
later, he and Sabina can go on the vacation.
Add another day to travel to
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Arrival in
Day Eight
Day Nine
On Page 66, Alex had been
there for three days…invited for a week…
Day 10
Surfing the Cribber wave; the
attack of the jet skier; Sabina saves Alex…
FIVE DAYS pass…
Day 11—hospital in Newquay,
Jones visits one day
Day 12
CIA requests Alex’s services…
“A few days ago” from Day 16
Day 13
Day 14
Day 15
Five days had passed. It was
a Monday morning.
Alex was two years old in
1989. (The wall was opened Nov 9, 1989. The last of it was taken down in Nov
1991))
Scholastic says 1990 and Alex
was three years old.
Sarov has been in Skeleton
Key for ten years.
In two weeks time, the
Russian President is meeting Sarov at Skeleton Key.
Alex is 14 and three months
old.
Johnson has been out of
contact for three months…
Seven weeks of summer left…
Smithers; seven hour plane
ride to
Winter 1998: Conrad blown up
and stitched back together.
Tom Turner in the
Day 16
Alex wakes up several hours
before
Day 17
The trip to Cayo Equeleto,
Alex goes for a swim, hammock; Alex finds the Geiger counter; dinner;
Day 18
Alex tracks
Deaths of
Day 19
After
p. 227-Sarov tells Alex he
was born in 1940. Alex goes horse back riding.
1970-Sarov married at age 30.
1971-At age 31 he had a son
born,
1988-Vladimir joins army at
age 16. Shot by sniper in
Russian President Boris
Nikita Kiriyenko arrives that night.
Day 20-“Heartbeat”
Alex goes horse back riding.
Alex meets guard Juan and later, Boris.
Alex one step kicks Juan into
unconscious. Alex’s escape fails. Trunk of car, megaphone.
Juan may have been shot. Or
punished. Or sent home.
Plane.
Notes: Michael Owen figure;
Tiger Woods figure in Scholastic version.
Day 21
Ten hours on plane. Alex
slept through stop at
Airport death of security
guard George Prescott (John Prescott in Scholastic).
Four hours later:
40 min drive from airport to
p316-Jones mentions the CIA
might be training their own young spy.
Day?Alex whisked off to
hospital in
Day Friday: Alex snapped at
Jack for the first time in his life when she requested he see a doctor.
Day Saturday. Jack, walking,
Sabina invites Alex to lunch with
parents, talk about South of France trip.
Figure: one day for
Before the very end of
SKELETON KEY….
(SKY TRAP short story takes
place here)
…on his return trip from
Moscow TO London, Alex and Crawley are kidnapped and held for a possibly four
days…in the short story SPY TRAP…Alex thinks about how he and Tom Harris used
drones in flight for fun (drones were not sold for civilians in any great bulk
before 2015 and started in 2013; 1000 were sold in 2015 and 3100; from 2006 to
2013 or so, only two a year were bought but this info might be for the US only;
there is also a reference to the fact that the villains who kidnapped and
drugged Alex and Crawley might be the Americans… “It might even be the
Americans. Under their new president, I wouldn’t put anything past them.”
Trump?; Alex was going to spend time with Sabina’s family for a couple of weeks
and Jack was taking him right to the airport…)
SKELEON KEY continued….
Total: Two more weeks of
school missed.
Day 26-end of novel
Some sources claim that
SECRET WEAPON happens here. It cannot since it is ten months after the start of
Point Blanc.
EAGLE STRIKE
15 years ago: Hunter (John
Rider) saves Cossack (Yassen Gregorovich). Yassen is 19.
First week of vacation : Alex
goes swimming, walking, climbing, canoeing, and horse back riding.
p. 21-Alex met Sabina only a
month before.
Day 7
Alex is in South of France
(airport is in
Alex is with Sabina’s mum
(Liz-a fashion desiger), father (Edward- a journalist), and Sabina for one
week.
Yassen spotted; seaside town
on the edge of marshes and lagoons that made up the Carmargue.
Afternoon trip to Aigues
Mortes.
Explosion of rented house and
injury of Sabina’s father.
Alex vs Franco, knocks Franco
out. Alex gets Yassen’s gun, hesitates to kill him; Raoul knocks Alex out from
behind.
Day 8
Return to
Alex tells Sabina everything.
Trip to Royal and General
Bank: Miss. Johnson works as a teller, Adam answers phones.
When Damian Cray (Harold Eric
Lunt) was 13 his parents were killed by a car falling on them rolling off a
garage top floor.
Cray was born
70s: at age 21, Cray formed a
band named Slam.
Five years later, Cray goes
solo.
In 1986 Cray visited
1989: Cray performs in
1990: Cray makes two visits
to
Cray was on TV that day. He
met the
Smithers sends Alex the new
device loaded bike.
Day 9
When Alex was 10, Ian taught
him how to pickpocket.
Jack helps Alex sneak into
Cray’s Pleasure Dome at
Female journalist that
questioned Cray at the Dome is hit by a car, a hit and run death as she left
Day 10
Jack once spent a year at
Sorbonne, studying art before Ian’s death.
Info about National Security
Agent Charlie Roper linked to Cray.
Death of Guppy and
Antonio. Alex’s flume escape.
Day 11?
Alex in Sloterdijk,
Coin death of Roper. Alex
caught and forced to play the Gameslayer on a real stage. Snake.
Alex escapes.
Day 12
12 AM,
36 hours till Eagle Strike
Sabina kidnapped from
Jack and Alex back in
Sabina is 15 on p. 240
Alex goes to exchange the
real flash drive for Sabina, intending to destroy it once she is safe.
Alex and Sabina put in
cellar.
Day 13
Long Night at airport and on
AirForce One. Death of Cray, Death of Yassen. Death of Henryk (as related by
Jones).
Yassen tells Alex about his
father working as a killer with him. Yassen says, “In a way, I loved him. I
love you, too, Alex.”
He tells Alex to find Scorpia
and he will find his destiny. He tells him to go to
Day 27-Two weeks go by
Meeting with Mrs. Jones
Note: Gameslayer was to hit
the stands August 13th. It never does ? By Christmas, Feathered Serpant
and 12 other games were to come out.
They never do?
It is possible the revised
version of SECRET WEAPON takes place here.
Summer-a few weeks of tutoring
see SCORPIA below (August)
SCORPIA
Day 1 to Day 2-start of
Venice Trip
Day 3-page 7-September on a
Sunday Morning (Scholastic and other US versions say Sunday morning in August)
3 days of the trip had
already gone by (UK Walker).
In Scholastic, Julia Rothman
kills Max Grendel first. In other words the chapter “Invisible Sword” comes first
in Scholastic.
Also in Scholastic is a
chapter named “Scippatori” which is not in the UK Walker Books version.
They both relate basically
the same info except for the school trip.
p.8-Less than a month has
passed since the death of Damian Cray.
Alex missed “loads” of the
spring term while at Cornwall (STORMBREAKER) and POINT BLANC academy.
Alex missed half the summer
term while at SKELETON KEY.
Rest of summer, say August,
Alex has a tutor named Charlie Grey.
Tutoring lasts for a few
weeks in summer (August).
p13-Alex was supposed to have
5 days in
Big divergence: In
Scholastic, Alex convinces Jack (easily) to let him go with friend Tom Harris
to
No school trip in US
version.
p. 21-Sept sun (not in
Scholastic). In Scholastic, Alex convinced Tom to go to
Day 4-
four days in
p.35-in the early 1980s
Scorpia was born.
p.38-20 years of violent
crime.
Three months earlier a Mid
East gentleman approached Scorpia to unbalance the world power against the
Night-into the palace dressed
as a slave boy, encounter with Tiger, knocked out by
Day 5—
Tom heads towards
Tom met Alex two years ago
for the first time. Alex took care of a bully named Mike Cook. Tom visited
Alex’s house a few times.
Six hours on train, then in
Day 6
Jerry takes Alex to look at Consanto. Back to Jerry’s and back to
Consanto, parachuting onto roof and inside.
John Rider had spent 3 years
with the Paras of the British Army, a regiment second only to the SAS.
May 1982-John Rider part of
attack on Goose Green in
More info from Julia Rothman
about John Rider:
Alex has once seen the medal.
Ian Rider had kept it in his top desk drawer.
A few weeks after his wedding
John got into a fight with Ed Savitt, John was 27, supposedly killed Savitt.
Sent to jail supposedly.
News article at least 15
years old. Exchange on
Day 7-Alex goes to Malagosto:
1380 AD: the island town on
Malagosto ransacked during a war with
18th century, the
island was a sanctuary for the insane.
Mid 1980s: Scorpia bought it
from the Italian government.
p.156-Prof Yermalov (once
taught
p.158-Oliver d’Arc, French
principal of Malagosto training center.
Alex Rider details on the
internet. Only 15 students at center at one time, only 11 at this time.
p.160-161-Thai woman: Miss
Eijit Binnag, nicknamed Jet, teaches botany.
p.162-Mr. Ross, red haired,
from Glasgow, tech specialist teacher; Miss Craig a student
p.172-Mr. Gordon Ross (a WILD
WILD WEST reference perhaps) picked up his skills in
p.164-William Dearly,
Day 8?or later at Day 12?
p.169-Malagosto psychiatrist
Dr Karl Steiner, German accent, from
p,170-Italian nurse had
examined Alex on his first day at Malagosto (day 7), stripped to his underwear
Alex went through tests.
P.172-other students: Klaus,
German mercenary trained with Taliban in
Amanda –a soldier in the
Israeli army in the occupied
Julia and Oliver discuss Alex
Rider’s ability to kill or not to kill.
More days?
p.180-183-lessons in killing,
hiding, stealth, poisons, weapons, a book written by Fairbairn and Sykes, a
book written by Dr. Three
p.185-two students who were
his friends who fought a duel with fencing swords a day before
More days? Say…
Day 14?
death of
p.211-Mrs Jones bought her
flat 7 years ago. She has a cat named Q.
Failed assassination attempt
on Mrs. Jones by Alex
Day 15
p.239—it has been six or
seven months since Blunt and Jones first met Alex.
30 hours till Invisible Sword
goes off.
Cobra meeting.
Alex returns to
20 hours to Invisible Sword.
Day 16
1:50pm-Alex has been complete
searched by
Climax: Deaths of
Days 19-23
Monday to Friday: Alex
returns to
Day 23
Friday evening-Blunt and
Jones ordered a phone call to Alex Rider. Jack wonders if they will have Alex
going to
Day 24
Saturday-Blunt and Jones left
Alex alone for a week. Meeting with him. Alex meets James Adair. Alex told
truth about John Rider.
Major Yu votes against
sending a sniper to kill Alex.
Alex shot by sniper. Sees
ghosts of parents.
Day One to Day 14?
p.26-October
p.38-ten long days in
hospital; meets Paul Drevin; Alex wants flowers out of his room.
(CROCODILE TEARS says “two
weeks”)
Attack on Hospital—night;
Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Silver Tooth,
Day 15
Alex in captivity, sun dawn;
sun sets; Kaspar; fire and tight rope walk away from fire
Alex taken back to hospital
by
Day 16
Still in hospital.
p.90-Jones is in
Jack picks Alex up from
Hospital
Day 17—possibly a Wednesday
Breakfast with Jack.
Tea with Nikolei Drevin. Meeting
Tamara Knight.
Nikolei Drevin offers Alex
two weeks vacation. Weekend in
p.111-Drevin will have a
driver take Alex to his country estate the day after tomorrow.
Day 18
Day 19-Alex taken to Drevin’s
country estate
Paul’s parents divorced when
he was 6.
Day 20
Tennis; Paul beats Alex at
tennis. Alex beats Nikolei Drevin at go kart racing even though Drevin cheats.
Day 21—Saturday?
Soccer (football) match. Steel Watch almost captures or kills Alex.
Force Three kills Adam Wright.
Day 22-Sunday
Plane en route to NY.
For the last 18 months, the
CIA and State Dept have been investigating Drevin.
Magnus Payne. Island. Prof.
Sing Joo Chan. Paul teaches Alex kite surfing.
Day 23
Breakfast. Kolo takes Alex
scuba diving to the Mary Belle wreck, tries to kill Alex. Saved by Tamara
Knight.
Insects get Kolo and guards.
Force Three arrives. Tamara and Alex captured.
p.255—Drevin mentions 9/11 (
p.258-Drevin mentions the
year 2000. Launch set for
p.264-265-Magnus Payne
revealed as Kaspar; death of four fake terrorists Steel Watch, Silver Tooth,
Spectacles, Combat Jacket.
Day 24
Escape from the cages. Ater 6am.
Alex elbows Paul.
Kite surfing escape,
speedboats chase and are destroyed; Princess blown up by CIA and Ed Shulsky.
Gabriel 7 launched. It will
dock with Ark Angel at
Alex goes up, fight with
Kaspar, Kaspar dies; bomb put in toilet.
Return to Earth.
SNAKEHEAD
Three weeks before Alex’s
return to Earth, 7 men of Scorpia met.
Past info: Alex was recruited
in March, aged 14 and two months. Ian died earlier this year.
LAST year, the CIA recruited
a teenage agent to combat drug syndicates operating out of
Five weeks from the start,
the plan of Yu is to go into effect. The G8 summit is to start in November.
A rep from one of the G8
governments contacted Scorpia six weeks ago and wants the summit ended
violently.
Two days after the meeting,
Royal Blue was captured and taken east.
A day after landing?
Day 1
Day 2
Alex meets Scooter,
Day 3
Swanbourne: test at
minefield; Alex nearly blown up.
Day 4
Day 5-Jack joins Alex in
Day 6-?
Sydney Opera House, Jack and
Alex together.
Day 7
Alex touches down in
Ash has been in
Day 8
Meeting Mrs. Chloe (Cloudy)
Webber, who makes Alex look Afghan.
Two weeks ago Karim and son
Abdul were picked up by ASIS. The pair were headed for
Alex’s skin color for two
weeks is brown unless he’s wet. Webber tells Alex to check on the teeth
every 5 or 6 days.
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11-in
Day 12
On the 4th day,
the snakehead came. Anan Sukit.
5 years ago someone in a gang
fight cut off Sukit’s ears.
Sunthorn vs Alex in arena at
illegal Muay Thai cage fight.
Escape into river, rats,
ferry. Sukit is shot from behind, someone set the fire and shot Sukit. (Fox)
Day 13
Morning: Alex is followed and
taken by Fox…who tells Alex his name is Ben Daniels. He has a Liverpudlian
accent.
Talk with Mrs. Jones in
Buddist temple hideout.
Royal Blue bomb stolen four
weeks ago.
On plane with Ash.
Eight months since Alex was
recruited.
After Yassen’s father died,
six months later, Yassen’s mother died. Yassen was 14.
EAGLE STRIKE was 15 years
after John Rider saved Yassen’s life.
John had a soft spot for
Yassen.
The
After
A couple of months after
Ash did a few more months of
desk duty.
Day 14?
Day 15
Kopassus Indonesian SAS.
Rain. Gunfight. Escape in van. To the docks. Put into a container with 20 (or
19) refugees.
Alex thinks it could be three
or four days before they are unloaded.
Day 16
Over 24 hours pass. Alex
blows his way out and leaves the container.
Royal Blue is on board.
Alex spies on Major Yu, Mr.
Varga, and Captain Hermann de Wynter (Dutch).
Death of old man
Day 17
It is 18 hours since the
search on the ship Liberian Star for Alex. Alex is under Yu’s bed. Two hours
more before Yu leaves room.
Gunpoint at Capt de Wynter.
Escape from the ship on
bottom of a container and the
Recaptured by Yu who has Ash.
Yu later mentions he had to kill Capt. de Wynter.
Day 18?
Alex taken to
When Yu was 6 his mother tracked down
snakehead in
p.290-Alex recalls
Day 19?
Alex had been locked up for
the night and most of the morning. Mid
day and he is flown to an Australian jungle compound.
Alex meets nurse Charleen
Hicks and Jacko. Alex meets “doctor” Bill Tanner.
In the compound there are
four nurses (one named Isabel with a rash on her lower face), Bill, Jacko, and
Quombi. And Jacko’s pit bull Spike.
Two of the other nurses are named
Swaine and Wilcox
It is on the edge of the
Day 20
R.V. Weinberg, a TV producer
of reality shows from
Day 21
Alex sinks the plane, makes a
makeshift kayak, sets fire to the compound building. Sets off. Rapids.
Helicopter attack. More
rapids. Bora Falls.
His trainers has a beacon
planted in them at Swanbourne.
11:10-Alex and Ben arrive at
the drilling platform, cut off from the other men.
Ash shot by Ben. Ben shot by
Yu. Ash confesses and dies.
SAS lost two men, 3 injured
Day 22?
Day 23
Day 24?-Monday
Alex returns to
Day25
Day26
Day27
Day28-Friday;
Full week back at Brookland.
After school, afternoon: Alex
goes to a meeting with Alan Blunt who asked him to come in.
On this Friday, Alex goes to
the office. It is the last week of November.
Blunt tells Alex that Tanner
has committed suicide, possibly on orders from Yu.
ASIS picked up two guards, a
handful of nurses, and two guards. They also arrested Varga (from
Ben recovers but will be in
hospital but will be out by Christmas.
Sabina arrives. She is almost
16 now. Sabina and mum are here renting a house in Notting Hill.
Alex had said goodbye to
Sabina a few months ago under
Day 29-Saturday
Tom Harris and Alex go to a
CROCODILE TEARS
TWO months after SNAKEHEAD
(so SNAKEHEAD might have taken place in October? and November)
The last six weeks before Dec
31st Sabina arrived unexpectedly with her parents in
Alex has completed almost
half a term without being attacked by someone.
Day 1
New Year’s Eve December 31st
For the past few days (before
Dec 31) Alex and the Pleasures were hillwalking, fishing, visiting ruined
castles, isolated villages and strolled along white sands of Morar.
Jack tells Alex she will see
him in a week. She tells him school starts on the 6th.
Day2
Jan 1
Escape from the Loch Arkaig
car crash. Hour to reach hospital. Liz arrives two hours after that.
Edward, Sabina, and Alex
released from hospital at
Day 3-Jan2
Day4-Jan3
Day5-Jan4
Day6-Jan5
Day7-Jan6
Alex returns to school. Tom
had spent Xmas with Jerry in
Harry Bulman comes to Alex’s
house to write a news story about Alex.
p.113-Alex was in
Day 8-Jan 7
Alex and Jack go to MI6.
Last November Philip Master
wanted to tell the police about Leonard Straik. Master was killed in an
accident.
Day9-Jan8
Day10-Jan9
Day11-Jan10
Day12-Jan11
It has been four days since
Bulman went to Alex’s house.
Bulman is given the “invisible man” treatment by
Alex gets Smithers’ postcard.
Day 13-?
Alex’s trip, adventure, and
escape from Greenfields.
Day 14
Henry Bray reprimands Alex.
He gives Alex one day exclusion from school. Alex escapes the studio fire.
Day 15
Day 16
A few days later?
Day 17
Death of Bulman by McCain.
Blunt and Jones dinner at Mandarin in
Day 18
Breakfast, Alex heads to
school, is kidnapped, turned into a handicapped student.
Day 19
Day 20
Pure Torture. Alex over
Crocs. Rahim saves Alex. Landing at Laikipia airport of a small town. Rahim
killed by McCain.
Final fight with McCain,
McCain dies. Alex hurt.
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23-??? Monday?
Jack had called every day
since Alex was picked up. He had been flown in the night before? She wanted to
see him in
Alex tells Jack that nurses
said he should be out in a couple of days, Tues or Wednesday out.
Jack will invite some of
Alex’s close friends over to celebrate.
ALEX UNDERGROUND short story
Alex vs Spectacles and
Specttacles loses and is trapped under a train and taken into custody.
Someone paid Spectacles to
steal a briefcase from
SECRET WEAPON short story
Ten months after the start
of POINT BLANC:
Skoda has escaped prison and
is after Alex Rider.
Miss Treat, a supply teacher,
physics and chemistry, arrived a few week ago at Alex’s
Treat stops Skoda. She works
for MI6.
Mr. Kydd teaches history.
(info from the revision: Skoda
is named Brian Smith. Tom and Alex’s birthdays are two days apart. SKELETON KEY
and EAGLE STRIKE have happened. EAGLE STRIKE was just a couple of weeks before.
Here, Donna Treat is Miss Maxwell; Mr. Bray is mentioned, Alex had been
brilliant in the school play, bottom in every subject, Tom’s parents divorced
or getting divorced, student Sam King helps cover for Alex during role call as
the trip ends; Skoda kidnapped Tom; Tom does not know Alex’s secret which means
the revision copy of this has to take place before SCORPIA).
The revision claims that the
Skoda boat incident happened a matter of months ago.
SCORPIA RISING
p6-a bright February morning,
Zeljan Kurst
p18-more Scorpia agents
mentioned: Levi Kroll, Mikato-the Japanese policeman turned Yakuza gangster;
Dr. Three
p,23-Razim born 45 years ago
p.25-1979 mentioned, Razim
informs on his parents, they are killed; sister dragged into a van by four men
p.28-Razim turns 18, asked to
join Mukhabarat and leaves university
p.29-2003-Iraq war
p.39-four months later---a
bright afternoon in June.
p.41-more Scorpia
agents—Seamus, an Irishman, a redhead, ex IRA. Twin brothers from the Italian
mafia—Giovanni and Eduardo (in 25 years they had never spent a minute apart).
p.43-The Chinese Dr. Three
described. He wrote a book on torture.
Also three operations
mentioned that were not given to Scorpia: nuclear material for
p.46-Mikato described.
Tattooed the name of every man he killed on his body. Diamond set in his front
tooth.
p,47-Frenchman Duval is one
of the 12 on the executive committee.
p50-Australian Brendan Chase,
former paymaster for the ASIS.
p.57-death of Levi Kroll
p.59-plans for Julius Grief
to be with them in one week
p.64-prisoners are two secret
agents, a weapons inspector who claimed to be innocent, a freelance assassin, two
terrorists who planned a nuclear strike on
p.65-Julius one of 16 clones.
p.66-Other clones named Napoleon,
Genghis, Mao Tse, and Adolph (the 16th one)
p.67-Julius had spent two
months in hospital
p.68-Rosemary
p.71-Julius believes it was a
year ago he almost killed Alex on the roof of the school, Julius day one
p. 71-72-Julius day two: the
Julius escape,
p.80-as far as Dr. Flint knew
two of the clones had died, the rest are in institutions like the one in
p.95-Alan has been at his
office for 17 years.
p.96-Blunt is 58
p.97-Alan recalls other
agents who often, did not return:
p.98-It has been 48 hours
since Kroll’s body turned up.
p.101-the dates on Kroll’s
phone about something happening three weeks ago refer to either June or July.
p.102-Samantha Redwing, 27,
has a social life, a boyfriend,
p.105-Two months ago (in
March on the 4th) the former
head of security of Cairo International College of Arts and Education, Mohammed Shafik was killed by a hit and run.
ALEX day 1-June? Early June?
A Friday and a school day….
(Walker Books calls it a Thursday!)
p.116-Four months had passed.
(Walker Books says five
months have passed!)
Second half of the spring
term and the first five weeks of summer. Alex is now 5’10.
(Walker Books says the second
half of the spring turn and two thirds of the summer…)
p.117-Physics teacher Mrs.
Morant told Alex he had a natural talent. Alex was capt of the first team at
soccer. He was in drama playing Teen Angel in Grease, summer production. Alex
seemed to be home less and less, hanging
out more with Tom Harris and James Hale. He played soccer on the weekends and
joined a rowing club near Hammersmith. He was in the 15 to 21 group. He rowed
often on Sat afternoons down Putney and
p.118-Alex seeing Sabina on
facebook. Alex stayed with Sabina for
ten days during the Easter holiday. They explored
p121-Tom’s brother Jerry is
visiting. Tom’s father had walked out.
p122-Alex’s bike is now the
Raleigh Pioneer 160. It replaced his old
Condor Roadracer.
p.123-It was a beautiful
spring day. Jack’s parents are in their 60s. Jack’s father had a stroke at the
start of spring. Jack has an older sister who lives in
p.125-Ian had been in car
crash in
Jack was going to leave Ian
two weeks before Ian left on the mission that had killed him.
p.126-Jack last saw Mrs.
Jones at St Dominic’s Hospital in north
p.127-Jack recalls last
spring that Alex stayed two weeks with Sabina.
Grant Donovan, Alex’s math
teacher.
Sniper attack
p.153-Jack mentions that a
journalist was after Alex in November. (Walker Books says January)
Alan and Jones visit Alex at
home.
p.159-Last week the
p.163-Gerrard
p.164-Alex’s home was bugged;
neighbors of the house opposite were taken ill in
ALEX day 2? Saturday?
Alex arrives in
Day 3-Sunday-meeting Smithers
Day 4-Monday-start of
college?????????
Or ?????????????
Day5
Day 6
Day 7
Day8
Day9
Day10-Meeting
Smithers????????
Day 11-Start of college????
p. 172-“over the next few
days.”
p,172-Alex would start school
on Monday. He and Jack visit pyramids at
NOTE: So either Jack and Alex
arrive in
Day 5 or day 12-Alex’s second
day of college
p.181-Alex meets Gabriella,
age 16, daughter of Italian ambassador
p.182-Andre Macdonald
p.186-Alex sees a boy, he is
not aware at the time but it is Julius Grief.
Alex gets messages from Tom,
Sabina and Julius among 18 messages, nearly all from his friends at Brookland.
p.189-“over the next two
weeks”
Day 19 or Day 26
p.190-“at the end of the
first two weeks, he was called into Monty Jordan’s office…”
Walker Books says early in
the second week…
p.191-and “so he played
soccer, talked politics, and even got a small part in the
p.193-On Friday afternoon at
the end of his second week…
Day 22 or Day 29
Erik Gunter away the whole of
Monday.
Day 23 or Day 30
Alex had to wait until the
end of Tuesday. Alex gets into Gunter’s office and overhears Gunter’s
conversation.
Day 24 or Day 31
Wednesday: Graham Barnes,
blue eyes, spiky hair, pockmarked cheeks, recognizes Alex from Brookland, he
got sent here last year.
The House of Gold, death of
Habib, sinking of House of Gold, Alex meets Blake Lewinsky and Franklin,
waterboarded, Joe Byrne stops that.
Joe mentions 9/11.
p.235-Joe mentions the oil
spill in the
Joe says he has been here for
two weeks now.
Alex and Jack plan to go home;
Julius practices on Alex target; He and Razim plan to kill Smithers tomorrow.
Day 25 or Day 32
Jack kidnapped; Smithers’
house attacked; Smithers reveals his fat suit; Alex left alone; Alex finds
note; Alex goes to Julius and Gunter; Alex taken to desert base of Razim.
Day 26 or Day 33
Alex in the cell, sees a baby
scorpion as the sun rises. Jack and Alex have breakfast with Razim. Alex and
Jack spend the day together; Alex is tortured as Jack escapes and is killed by
bomb in SUV. (not really killed)
Day 27 or Day 34
Gunter is surprised by the
change in Alex who had been captured 48 hours before. At the van at the speech
at the university. Death of Gunter. Sniper attack foiled by Alex; gunfight,
rainstorm, death of Julius.
Alex returns to Razim’s fort
and disables the defenses. The attack on Razim starts. Blake dies. Razim dies.
Two weeks go by? A few weeks
go by?
Day? 41 or Day 48
p.393-Alan thinks the summer
will be hot. He saw Smithers a “few weeks ago” when Smithers returned from
In two weeks Alan will be
leaving on a six week tour of
p.395-Jones says Stormbreaker
was over a year ago.
p400-Edward arrived two days
ago. Alex stayed in a hospital/rest home in fifty acres of parkland. Alex and
Edward leave.
NEVER SAY DIE
Six weeks in America…in San
Francisco (42 days)
30-Alex has recently turned
15.
p.42—Sabina met Alex a year
ago at Wimbledon (so SKELETON KEY was a year ago and the first two books,
STORMBREAKER and POINT BLANC were a year and a bit more)
p.44-It has been six weeks
since Alex left Egypt
p.47-“the” week passed
(another week), the weekend (day 43 to day 49)
p.50-Alex is 15 now (this
reference is not in Alex’s letter in the American Philomel version); Alex stops
bullies Colin MacGuire and Clayton Miller; Alex returns to Siwa.
p.67-The drive through the
night. End of first day back in Siwa. (day 50 or 49)
p.97-Day 50-A new morning, a
new day. At night, Alex talks to the Pleasures on a screen. Alex will leave at
6am the next morning.
122-Peppermint Tea--6am, Alex
leaves; “18 hours later” from the last scene in the last chapter, a new day;
Alex is in Saint Tropez
128-Mrs. Jones tells Alex
that Alan Blunt resigned; Smithers left MI6;
131-Alex figures it took the
Grimaldi brothers seven days to bring Jack by boat to Saint Tropez; the yacht
164-The Grimaldi brothers are
50.
165-When they were 6, a nanny
fell out of a window and died.
166-At age 16, their father
made them capos
168-Day 51-Morning; Dragana
is killed; Alex kidnapped and they attempt to drown him; Wolf saves Alex
211-Mrs. Jones met with Alex
“yesterday”
215-Back Home
231-Day 52-A new day; 7am;
the kidnapping of the school bus and children
368-Day 53--The next day?---
At least a week before he could return to school; where he had been for the
past couple of months;
NIGHTSHADE (Kindle
Edition-2020!)
p1-long weekend in Amsterdam
after a return from Smoke City in Wales;
p2-a few weeks since Alex
thought Jack had died;
p.6-Clifford suffered a heart
attack that summer
p.8-Clifford’s murder by Girl
Scouts with cookies
NightShade’s attack planned
for three weeks’ time
p.15-Dominic Royce shows Mrs.
Jones a picture of Alex that was taken more than a year ago.
p.17-Several months had
passed since MI6 used Alex to go to Cairo.
p.18-Royce recounts all of
Alex’s mission: Cornwall, Point Blanc Academy, some island off the coast of
America, Thailand, Australia, outer space…
p.21-It was a year since she
met Alex.
p.31-death of Pablo
p. 49-Ten years ago Frederick
Gray, son of Sir Christopher Gray and Lady Gray, “died” in a boating accident.
p.59-Nightshade were behind
the bombing “last year” in Istanbul. Assassinations in Moscow, Riyadh, Beijing.
Kidnapped Paul Saba, the Vatican banker in Rome, got the ransom and killed him
anyway.
p.60-37 deaths in the last
two weeks in Brazil, working for the Third Command.
p.67-Alex muses about math
teacher Donovan and history teacher Nash.
It then states he was on missions in the last 15 months. (all previous
books?).
p. 68-Tom Harris, when 16
will leave his home to live with his brother in Italy. Tom mentions Edward
Channon, a boy from America, who is having a party.
p.70-Alex is only back in
England a few days.
p.75-When Alex was 11, Ian
showed him how to open a locked car door.
p.86-Alex has been at school
a week.
p. 96-Nine years ago Mrs.
Jones’ husband Hans Mayer took her two children, William, who is now 16, and
Sophia, who is 15 now, away somewhere when she warned him that MI6 knew he was
spying on her.
p.133-It is the middle of
October. Alex is supposed to be here for one week (five days?).
p.145-Alex is in the jail for
three days and four days so far.
p.160-Alex was 11 when he
started Brookland.
p.166-Prisoner movie: The
Martian. Alex read a Phil Pullman book.
p. 221-almost end of October
p.232-Yannis Hordakis
vanishes and his brother George turns up dead, mauled by a shark, supposedly
two years before
p.252-When Alex was 9, Ian
took him to the Greek Islands.
p.263-Two days go by; Alex is
with the Family and Nightshade’s compound
267-Ian took Alex to train at
karate when he wsa 6; by age 13 he was a first grade dan with a black belt;
277-Tom once showed Alex a
you tube video
278-Two weeks ago Alex was in
London
THE
1380-Malagosto island sacked
during war with
1750-ladder built by
smugglers up to Casa de Oro from underwater to cliffs.
1857-Point Blanc built.
1868-Alejandro Corrazon,
owner of Casa De Oro killed.
1950-Damian Cray, Harold Lunt
born.
1956-Alexei Igorevich Sarov
is a private in Operation Whirlwind to crush Hungarian revolution.
1960s-Major Yu classified
operations in
1963-Johannes de Leede aka Dr
Hugo Grief came to the attention of MI6
1965-Julia Rothman’s parents
dedicated to Welsh independence were put in prison.
1966-Yassen born in Estrov.
Harold Lunt leaves
1967-Church of Forgotten
Saints deconsecrated
1970-Yu diagnosed with
brittle bone disease.
1971-Lunt returns to the
1972-Eva Stellenbosch
(Viljoen) joins BOSS, age 21. Yu returns
to
1974-Nikolei Drevin drafted
into Russian army; joins intelligence service.
1975-Eva assigned to Johannes
(Hugh Grief) at BOSS.
1977-Julia Evans (Rothman)
suspected of passing info about
1978-Sarov promoted to General.
1979-Sarov involved in
special forces to put down Afghan military. Harold Lunt’s band SLAM! breaks up.
Lunt changes name.
1980-BOSS closed down. Eva seemed to be part of Hugo’s experiments,
changing her appearance and body.
1980-Julia marries Sandro
Rothman; two days later he dies. Yu second in command of crime empire of
1981-Eva follows Hugh to
1982-CIA photographs Julia
leaving office of
1982-Drevin became a signals
analyst at KGB. Contacts made with Triad, Yakuza, and Russian underworld. Yu
organizes crime some more.
1983-Al
1983-McCain knocked out by
Buddy Sangster in
1984-Scorpia involved in
Senate elections in
1984-Scorpia assassination of
Hector Nalbandian, his driver, bodyguards and two innocent bystanders.
1984-Federal drug trafficking
charges against Lazaro cocaine cartel dropped as ordered by the New Senate in
1984-Buddy Sangster killed
under a train in NY subway. 100 black tulips were sent.
1985-?first mission of Yassen
and John Rider. Nadia Vole works for Sayle
Late 1980s and 1990s-John and
Yassen assignments.
1986-Damian Cray free concert
at Wembley Stadium raises 30 million pounds for stopping famine in
1987-Sean Green aka Mr. Grin
has his accident with knives during performance. Gemini Project starts.
1988-Nadia Vole moves to the
1989-Sarov goes to
1990-The Gentleman starts his
killings (one alias is Sam Green). Damian Cray knighted by The Queen.
1991-Sir Rupert shot and his
land bought by Sayle. Julia Rothman’s Italian construction company buys
1992-Waratah Creek,
1993-Conrad deserts Bosnian
Muslims to become a mercenary.
1994-Drevin a millionaire by
unscrupulous means; sells factories for the stock market. Buys and sells oil
shares.
1994-Conrad becomes a
terrorist for hire. Boris Kiriyenko comes to power in
1994-Innsbruck,
1994-Kyoto, Japan—Japan
doomsday cult pays 70 mill to Scorpia to poison thousands. Cult member turns
himself in and stops it.
1996-Walter Baxter altered
the face of a Serbian war criminal and was caught. He vanished from the
1996-Drevin Novgerol bought
by Drevin with help from Russian mafiya, triads and yakuza.
1996-Max Grendel sends
1996-2001-Nile kills 30
people over this time. Magnus Payne and
Drevin meet. Drevin has Payne released from jail after 15 years.
1998-Drevin had paid back his
investors with interest. Banker and broker for illegal dealings.
1998-Conrad blown up but not
killed (September). Charlie Roper meets Cray in
1998-Oil found near
1999-Sarov has Conrad become
his personal assistant. (June). Scorpia sets fire to
1999-Drevin sells off a cache
of Russian energetics weapons to terrorists. Starts to look into suitcase nukes
sellings.
2001-early-Ark Angel was
costing Drevin 10 mill pounds a day. Force Three attacks throughout 2001.
2001-Wimbledon
2004-Boxing Day tsunami
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