Point Blanc

Notes:

Overall, the story smacks openly of James Bond machismo. The characters play their roles as good guys or bad; the necessary incidentals do their stuff; the sentences are nice and short and explain everything you want to know. It relies on the racy plot and tension to carry the story, but even there I feel it's let down. I'd stopped caring long before I found out the (fairly predictable) explanation for everything. One fairly obvious plot flaw revolves around the fact that Alex was drugged — and his character must have known that he was — but he makes no mention of it later, nor does the woman who drugged him.By and large, there's little objectionable; there are Bondesque scenes, though, which jar. The story opens with an episode in which Alex takes the law into his own hands by using a crane to lift the houseboat home of two drug pushers and drop it — accidentally — onto a nearby conference centre, currently hosting a police drug-awareness seminar. He causes millions of pounds of damage, but it's all covered up by MI6. Later, learning his role as the make-believe son of a rich businessman, he stays at the man's house, encounters his spoilt daughter who plays the glamour girl, coming out of the swimming pool. She and her friends then pick on Alex when they go shooting in the woods, and Alex loses his temper and throws the expensive gun of one of the boys into a lake.