Many high schoolers, both guys and girls, read the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz in middle school, including myself. I loved the series, which started with “Stormbreaker,” where Alex Rider was introduced as an orphaned boy raised by his uncle. His family hid many secrets from him, including their life’s work. So Alex was thrown into the secret life his family had doomed him to be a part of, leading to him almost being killed on numerous occasions, one assassin nearly succeeded, a Russian named Yassen Gregorovich.

Yassen Gregorovich is a highly skilled assassin who, throughout the series, is hired to kill many people that cross Alex Rider’s path. When Alex sticks his nose into a top secret organization’s business, Yassen is hired by that group to kill Alex Rider. Yassen has a reputation that can be counted on: he always kills, and he is always untraceable.