Convinced it was Yassen, Alex locates him on a yacht but is captured by Yassen's associate, Franco, and Yassen sends him to fight a bull in a bullring.
Later, the house that Sabina and her family are staying in explodes, injuring Sabina's father, Edward, in the process. Once escaping, Cossack thanks his partner for saving him before heading back to civilization.Īfter the events of Skeleton Key, Alex Rider is on holiday in the south of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her parents, where he spots Yassen Gregovich at the beach and follows him, but stops after a close encounter that endangers him. Changing his position, Hunter manages to hit the black widow and take out the target with a single shot from his sniper rifle, leaving Cossack with a scar on his neck. However, a black widow spider lands on the neck of Cossack, compromising the mission. Locating him, they prepare to take him out from his secret hideout before he boards a helicopter. In a prelude chapter that takes place fifteen years before the main series, two unnamed assassins (referred to as Hunter and Cossack) travel through the Amazon jungle in search of their target, a major drug lord known only as 'the Commander'.
