Dr. Hugo Grief was a native of South Africa where he was the chief of biological research in the Main Biology Department of South Africa and the main antagonist of the Point Blanc novel. He was a racist man who was disgusted by how black people eventually became the leaders of South Africa feeling they would run his country into the ground, due to being incapable of handling such seats of power (to him, Nelson Mandela was criminal who had no right to be given his position). He thought that Africa was excellent when controlled by the white men and thus decided to try and rule the world to reinstall the white man's control over the world. Grief after years of thinking discovered that to rule the earth you must control the main industries in the world that humans need to live like food and technology industries. Thus he came up with a plan to rule all industries called "Project Gemini".
In order to control these industries Grief came up with a plan, he bought an abandoned castle on top of the French Alps and along with assistant Eva Stellenbosch turned the castle into an underground laboratory where they managed to clone him sixteen times (having perfected this process, experimenting in the past on his countries political prisoners).
Grief then turned the castle into a school for the troubled sons of rich families but his actual intentions were to lock up the real children and use plastic surgery to make the clones of himself resemble the children. Grief would then send them back to their parents and eventually, when the parents died, the clones would control and inherit their businesses. However when two men got suspicious about their sons' (the clones) attitudes, Grief had them killed because they were researching him. This eventually leads to MI6 sending Alex Rider to Point Blanc in disguise to investigate. Alex eventually discovered the truth and was set to be killed by Dr. Grief, though Alex managed to escape.
It was in the hands of Alex where Grief met his end. After Alex escaped, it was made to look as if he had been killed in doing so to put Grief off his guard. 24 hours later, however, he returned with an SAS attack force and raided Point Blanc. Grief attempted to escape in a helicopter, and Alex, in an attempt to stop the helicopter from escaping, climbs onto a snowmobile and speeds up a ramp. When he is about to reach the edge of the ramp, he leaps off, leaving the snowmobile flying through the air, striking Grief's helicopter. The snowmobile exploded upon hitting it, blowing apart the helicopter and killing Grief. After death, Grief had already set up a clone to kill Alex. But, after Alex meets his clone in his school, Alex kills the clone.
Grief was also portrayed as insane by having the idea of disposing of Alex by having him be dissected alive in a biology class for the clones of himself. Aside from this, he is also portrayed as insane by worshiping the biggest enemies of democracy such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alex_Rider_characters
Dr Hugo Grief
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