![]() ![]() At first, both appear angry and annoyed that they are being forced to take Alex along, one of their arguments being that Alex isn't American and may blow their cover, getting them killed. When Alex first meets Troy and Turner, they are described as being hard-bitten, emotionless and empty, presumably due to their work with the CIA. When she first meets Alex, she is dresses very casually in a loose-fitting skirt and a T-shirt, with a string of beads around her neck and a coloured shoulder bag. She is slim with brown frizzy hair that falls to her shoulders and doesn't appear to wear any make-up. Troy is described as being a couple of years older than Turner, who was about forty years old. It is said that she had worked with Turner many times before their mission with Alex. Alex Rider's opinions about Troy and Turnerīelinda Troy was a former CIA agent, who accompanied Alex Rider to Skeleton Key (Cayo Esqueleto) under the alias of 'Belinda Gardiner', Alex's mother, with Tom Turner (Glen Carver in the US version of the novel) under the disguise of Alex's father. If they'd tried to get these two into Skeleton Key, they're have been identified as spies as soon as they'd even got off the plane They were hard-bitten, emotionless, empty. It was as if they had both survived the same, bad accident. The strange thing was that despite their appearances, there was something identical about Tom Turner and Belinda Troy. Conrad's name is a pun on the word "comrade.Alex looked from one to the other.With a brutal and nasty side, Conrad enjoys other people's suffering, maybe even General Sarov's, and relishes in agony and insanity. He has the personality of an insane but perfect assassin. It can be assumed that he did his work for the Turkish Secret Service, which led to his incident with a bomb.Ĭonrad is cruel, psychotic, callous and sly, as well as being highly intelligent. He is very athletic and extremely flexible, his only vice being his metal insides. He is also a brutal warrior and master combatant, with an extremely aggressive fighting style. He is also a capable engineer, with a full understanding of mechanisms of certain machinery and of the anatomy of the Salesman's ship. He is a master of the shadows and is very elusive. Abilities Ĭonrad is a crack shot and a powerful assassin. Alex then moves the magnet over the sea and drops Conrad's lifeless body into the water, where he immediately sinks, never to be seen again (Where Alex commented:"What an attractive man."). However, due to all the metal in his body, he becomes attached to a large electromagnet (used to move Sarov's nuclear bomb) and he slams into it with force, breaking his back. ![]() Near the end of the novel, Conrad fights Alex near Murmansk and easily overwhelms the boy, coming close to killing him. However, whereas Sarov is fond of Alex and is keen to adopt him, Conrad takes a particular dislike to the boy and tries to kill him at one point by feeding him into a crushing machine. He was "re-assembled" by a group of Albanian doctors and was considered to be a "scientific miracle." Role in Series Skeleton Key Ĭonrad aids Sarov in his plans and carries out certain tasks for him, such as blowing up the Salesman after Sarov purchases a nuclear bomb from him, in order to cover any tracks. The reason for his appearance is that he was once carrying bomb and it exploded while he was still holding it. One of his eyes is permanately bloodshot. He has uneven legs and walks with a limp. He has at least thirty metal pins in his body, a metal wire in his jaw and a metal plate in his skull. He is short and has long hair on one side of his head, but is bald on the other. Conrad serves as the personal henchman of General Alexei Sarov in Skeloton Key. ![]()
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