Damian Cray was born in North London on October 5, 1950, and baptized Harold Eric Lunt. With a remarkable singing voice he desired to be a pop star, but his parents kept him – unhappily – at the Royal Academy of Music in London. At 13 his parents died in a bizarre accident. Later he left the Royal Academy and traveled the world. He changed his name and became Buddhist and vegetarian.
He returned to England in the 1970s and enjoyed a hugely successful music career starting off in a band call “Slam!” (a parody of Wham!). This shot him to fame and he then went solo. His first solo album, “Firelight”, went platinum, he won several awards and released the single “Something for the Children” at Christmas time with all money given to charity. Cray campaigned for issues, including saving the rain forests, ending world debt and banning animal testing. His tireless work for charity even earned him a knighthood.
The rich superstar branched into hotels and even started developing “Gameslayer”, the newest games console of its time. However, in order to fulfill some of his charitable notions he had countless people murdered. His evil deeds went unnoticed until he ordered an assassination attempt on Edward Pleasure - father of Sabina Pleasure - a journalist who was threatening to expose Cray. Cray was planning a nuclear attack to annihilate parts of the world which produced the bulk of the world’s illegal drugs which were exported to countries such as Britain. Under the cover of “Gameslayer” he devised a way of hi-jacking Air Force One and launching nuclear missiles in a mad bid to obliterate the world's drug supplies. However, Alex has trouble convincing Alan Blunt that the charitable Damian Cray is planning to destroy half of the world under the cover of “Gameslayer”.
Upon Air Force One, Alex manages to prevent the nuclear strike and, with Sabina, manages to push Damian Cray out of the plane and into one of the turbines, killing him instantly and forcing the pilot to make a crash landing.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alex_Rider_characters
Damian Cray
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