What to do?

Author’s note: This is a conflict/resolution piece on the book Eagle Strike.

What would you do if you were a prisoner to a maniac and you had the chance to escape? Would do you run like a fawn escaping from a lion or would you be like Alex Rider? Alex hadn't run away scared, but he had stopped to look for evidence to put the psychopath away so that he would not hurt anyone else. The psychopath, Damian Cray, was trying to get rid of drugs forever by launching America's nuclear bombs at drug facilities all over the world. Alex got caught in that conflict when he had followed Yassen, an assassin working for Damian Cray.

Alex Rider is not your ordinary kid. When he saw the person who had killed his uncle, he knew there was a problem. Instead of running away he had set out to find out what was wrong. He knew that if he followed him that he would be in danger but he did it anyway which had saved millions of lives.

Quick thinking is a trait that Alex Rider has used a lot to save him. When he was trapped in a room with almost nowhere to go Alex hadn't let panic get to him. He had quickly examined the room to find a way out. When he got out he had come across many traps. He thought he would use them to play dead in front of the guards so that he could escape behind them. His quick thinking and led him to a solution which saved him from doom.

Not all of the solutions had been good in the book. The head of M16, a secret organization, had not believed Alex when he was told that the international pop star, who was considered a saint, was up to something. That had almost led to many nuclear bombs exploding in different places of the world which would have destroyed millions. Their solution to wait and see what would happen had put the world at risk.

Millions of lives were saved because Alex decided to go after Damian and stop him from launching the nuclear bombs by killing him. He knew he would be the only one to do it because since no one believed him, not even M16, the organization he has worked for in the past.