Dr. Hugo Grief

Hugo Grief
Biographical Information
Name	Hugo Grief
Alias	--
Title	Doctor
Date of birth	Unknown
Age	59
Physical Information
Status	Deceased
Nationality	white South African
Gender	Male
Hair	White
Skin	"Chalk-white"
Relationship Information
Family	16 teenaged clones
Affiliations	Eva Stellenbosch
Occupation	Headmaster of the Point Blanc Academy
Series Information
First Appearance	Point Blanc
Last Appearance	Point Blanc
Mentioned	Snakehead

Dr. Hugo Grief is the main antagonist of Point Blanc, the 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th Alex Rider novel. That is why it is impossible for one to get the complete collection.

Role in Series

Point Blanc

Dr. Grief stole a large amount of money from the South African government and used it to set up the Point Blanc Academy in the French Alps, claiming it to be a school for misbehaving boys from very wealthy families. In reality, he kidnaps these boys and replaces them with surgically altered clones of himself (sixteen to be exact). The reason for this is so that his clones can replace the real boys and assume their identity, then take their place in their family. They would then grow up to become dumb and poor individuals, each with Grief's intelligence, ambition and determination, and also his insane dream; to reinstate apartheid across the entire world. Dr. Grief calls his scheme the Gemini Project. After he discovers that Alex Rider was sent to spy on him and the academy, Grief explains to Alex the details of his plan and also tells him that he paid for the deaths of both Michael J. Roscoe and General Viktor Ivanov, who had been the fathers of two of the boys attending Point Blanc. Unlike the other students' parents, Roscoe and Ivanov had sensed that there was something wrong with their sons when they returned home (though still not realising that they were actually clones of Grief). Due to the fact that this could have caused problems, Dr. Grief had them both eliminated by The Gentleman. Afterwards, Grief has Alex locked up for the night in a high security cell, planning to perform an unanesthesized vivisection on him for a biology lesson the next morning. Alex escapes and contacts MI6, and at night Point Blanc is raided by an SAS Attack Squad. Grief shoots one of the SAS men before attempting to escape in a helicopter, but Alex drives a snowmobile off a ski jump and jumps off, letting it smash into the helicopter, blowing it up and destroying the evil scientist.

Trivia

• His red-colored glasses may refer to the idiom "seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses", meaning to see good where there is none. This could symbolize the fact that only Grief sees good in his cruel, evil actions and ideals.
• Dr. Grief is a white supremacist.
• Because of his admiration of Adolf Hitler and his plan to dissect Alex alive, this character may have been based off of Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist who performed similar experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Mengele preferred to vivisect children 5 and under, and his "test subjects" numbered into the thousands.
• He is an albino.
• He is the first person Alex ever killed.

Sources

• Photo: http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/14590000/14598229.JPG
• General information: various sources, including but not limited to:
  • Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz (primary)

    

    Dr. Grief as he appears on the cover of Point Blanc.

  • http://www.alexrider.com/Criminals/Main-Criminals/Dr-Hugo-Grief
  • http://alexrideradventures.com/character.html