Man I am so sorry you guys! I don't know what happened with the time! Promise it won't happen again! Unless I'm away or something.
Before I even read this chapter I was worried - if you remember Alex was left hanging over the crocodiles with absolutely no hope of survival. I looked at the title of this chapter, saw the word "Raw" and was very, very worried. I knew he couldn't die - unless the next book is just a really long funeral - but I still couldn't see how he'd escape unless MI6 miraculously found him.
Well. Myra Bennett is taunting him, waiting for him to drop when suddenly she stops. She opens her mouth to letblodd gush out of it, pitches forward and falls into the crocodiles. Have to confess I didn't see that one coming.
But it's not MI6 behind her. It's a man Alex recognises from a while back: it's none other than the man who rescued him, Sabina and her father after they fell in the loch. Wow. He's like some kind of guardian angel! He's close enough so that Alex can let go with one hand and grab this man's.
I felt so bad for Alex at this point, he hardly has any strength left and they have to get away from this place in case McCain comes back for Alex and finds his fiance dead... wouldn't want to be around for that.
The man introduces himself as Rahim, part of India's Secret Service, and he's been snet to kill McCain. I've noticed throughout these books that Alex has a great aversion to killing people himself, but he is constantly mixing with those who are cool with it. Yassen Gregorovitch, although originally Alex's enemy, became kind of close to Alex, and he's worked with various people in Scorpia, with MI6/SAS and the CIA who kill all the time. What kind of place is that for a 14 year old? Alan Blunt must have been seriously twisted to consider getting Alex to come and work for them.
McCain isn't a nice man. At all. And the world might be a better place without him. But I don't personally think he should be killed, and I'm not sure Alex does either. Whatever happens to McCain is not going to stop the plague that's steadily transforming the wheat into lethal poison, and Alex points this out to Rahim. There's relatively little they can do though, as all Rahim has is a bomb which he intends to use to blow up McCain's plane when he leaves.
On Alex's flight with Bennett he noticed there was a huge dam and suggests they blow that up to flood the fields and therefore drown the poisonous spores, and Rahim says there's little they can do, unless they can blow up one of the pipes. All they have is one small bomb and Alex's pen explosive which Smithers gave him for his 'school trip' to Greenfields. However, Rahim is not well, he has some kind of fever and passes out, leaving Alex to work out what to do. Luckily he's able to contact MI6 but doesn't know when or if they'll get the message, and after that it's up to him to save the world. Again.
Surely this must work. Alex has never failed at a mission before, and I don't want him to, but it would be interesting if he did. I don't want loads of peopleto die but luckily this is only fiction, and it would be very interesting to see how Alex responded to it. He would have done all he could, but I bet he'd be horrified and disgusted with himself for not doing more. He's like Harry, he has this 'hero complex' thing: he has to save the day no matter what it costs him, and if something goes wrong he shoulders the blame entirely. I don't want him to have to deal with that sort of grief and disgust but hey, it would be very good character development. And maybe MI6 would stop using him.
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