THINGS ARE GOING TOO WRONG TOO QUICKLY. WHY DID I WILLINGLY DECIDE TO READ THIS ONE CHAPTER AT A TIME???
Again I didn't expect the story to prgress quite so quickly: this chapter we see Alex go to Greenfields, the GM crops place, already on his 'mission'. It was very different to the last chapter - I suppose that one was a sort of light relief before we came to this one which is very important and pretty serious. Alex goes on this school trip with his BFFs Tom and Jack (this book's the first time we've met Jack, making me wonder if he'll come into play later). Tom's the only one who knows about his MI6 background, so Alex warns him that he's up to something and is going to need Tom to cover for him.
They arrive and things are very dodgy. There are loads of guards, high security and a strange woman waiting to greet them. The way she's described makes her sound kind of machine-like: she's got a kind of computerised, emotionless voice - you know the kind that Sat Navs have - and it's very difficult to tell her age, she has plain blonde hair and apparently a plain, non-descript face. The great thing about Horowitz is how even when he's describing someone really boring and plain like this lady (Dr Myra Bennett) he doesn't describe them in a dull way. His humourous style of writing is very appealing to me, especially because I spend a lot of time reading 'proper books' which are wonderfully written but often lacking in humour, and he paints vivid pictures with words which many authors seem to stuggle to do.
Dr Bennett tells them about the poisonous plants that they're growing in the centre. Why do I have such a bad feeling about those? I can really see them coming up later in a very bad way for Alex... they're pretty deadly and she describes vividly the various ways in which one could die in there. Pleasant.
The school party are told that registers will be taken at the beginning and end, so Alex has limited time to find his way to the boss's office and download the data and make his way back. Gah I hate timed things. He goes off really quickly, using a hidden map that Smithers supplied for him, and the camera-deactivating calculater to help him. Whilst on the way he sees armed guards, which makes me wonder what else this place is hiding. You don't have guns just to protect sciency stuff.
Alex makes it to the office and luckily there's no one there, so he goes in and sticks the USB into the computer. Actually before, he had to take one out, and owing to reasons I'll come to he never put it back in which made me worry that perhaps Straik (that's the boss man) will notice something's up =S The USB does its thing, but then DISASTER STRIKES!!!
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH THE DOOR.
THE USB HASN'T FINISHED DOWNLOADING.
THE FOOTSTEPS STOP OUTSIDE THE DOOR.
THE USB FINISHES.
ALEX HEARS SOMEONE ABOUT TO OPEN THE DOOR.
HE DIVES INTO THE ONLY HIDING PLACE IN THE ROOM.
WE DON'T GET TOLD WHERE THIS IS, SO HAVE NO IDEA IF IT'S WELL HIDDEN OR NOT.
TWO MEN ENTER THE ROOM.
ONE IS DESMOND McCAIN.
Now do you see why I can't stand to wait another day??
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