Conrad is General Alexei Sarov's personal assistant and thus one of the main antagonists of the novel Skeleton Key. He is a short man who has been described to have several scars all around his body, the cause for his scars are apparently that once he was carrying a bomb which blew up on him, in order to save his life he was given a metal jaw, metal legs and metallic pins to hold his skull together.
He first appeared in the novel when Sarov orders him to put a bomb in The Salesman's ship and is later seen by Alex Rider near the Salesman's ship although Alex doesn't know who he is at the time. Later, after Tom Turner and Belinda Troy are killed in "The Devil's Chimney" under water cave, Conrad kidnaps Alex and puts him in a crusher only for Alex to be saved by General Sarov, Conrad's boss. Sarov planned on adopting Alex no matter how much Conrad told him it was a bad idea and that Alex should be killed because he would ruin the plan, this eventually became true.
Sarov's plan was to put a nuclear bomb in a nuclear submarine to create and enormous explosion which would destroy Murmansk and the fall out would cause so much chaos that communism could control Europe again, Sarov ordered Conrad to place the bomb in the submarine with a magnetic crane, however Alex escapes from Sarov (who had changed his mind about adopting him and decided he should die in the nuclear explosion) Conrad, without turning off the crane, goes after him and they both engage in a fight. Conrad has the upper hand in the fight until the crane he left on magnetizes all the metal pins and prosthetics in his body and is attached to the crane, Alex takes control of the crane and drops Conrad into the water in the harbor and due to the heavy, metal prosthetics in his body, Conrad can't come afloat, causing him to sink into the ocean and drown.
Conrad's name is a play on the word "Comrade" which was a term used by Communist generals and politicians during the communist era of the Soviet Union.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alex_Rider_characters
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