this book is also one of the good books of alex rider. Trouble stalks fourteen-year-old Alex Rider wherever he goes. After his uncle's sudden death by the MI6, this is his eighth mission yet. Alex is enjoying a normal lifestyle and when he accompanies his friend Sabina Pleasure and her father to a charity party hosted by Reverand Desmond McCain at Kilmore Castle in Scotland on New Year's Eve, he's not expecting anything unusual. He lands himself in a game of Texas Hold'em with the host himself and somehow, out of sheer luck, Alex wins the competition- grabbing what was almost McCain's victory. this was again a fantastic book from all of the books from alex rider this is such a good book that afterwards you want to read all of the others. this is a really good book.