Major Winston Yu was one of the members of the executive board of SCORPIA, he was charged by Zeljan Kurst, another head member of SCORPIA to command operation "Reef Encounter" in which they would generate an artificial tsunami to destroy Reef Island and the west coast of Australia by detonating a special bomb named "Royal Blue" between two under water tectonic plates when they are most vulnerable. He ran the Bangkok Snakehead with Anan Sukit, but becomes the sole leader when Ben "Fox" Daniels kills Sukit.
Yu has a form of osteoporosis that he calls "Brittle Bone Disease," which makes his skeleton highly un-stable and this disease got him kicked out of the army and into organized crime. Yu is obsessed with the British and has British boats, paintings and statues. His obsession with the British began when his mother had an affair with a British business man who told her beautiful things about England. He treats every one of his underlings with merciless behaviour, but treats Alex gently because he is British.
After his men steal Royal Blue, his plans start going wrong when MI6 tell Alex about Yu and his plot. Yu and Alex escape from the boat The Liberian Star and Yu has Alex kidnapped. Then he is brought to his mansion so Yu could explain himself, and then sends Alex to have his organs surgically removed and used for illegal organ transplanting.
However, Alex escapes his captors and leads Yu to believe he is dead, however, Alex and a group of ASIS soldiers, among those soldiers is Ben "Fox" Daniels, they raid Yu's center of operations, an oil drilling platform named Dragon Nine and Alex and Fox eventually encounter Yu and Ash, Fox shoots and kills Ash but Yu shoots Fox, even though he is not killed. Alex and Yu have a final confrontation and when Yu is about to kill Alex, a crane collapses inside the control room and the impact breaks Yu's arm, forcing him to flee and in the process he breaks both his ankles, but reaches his yacht and attempts to escape on it. Yu is eventually killed when Alex detonates Royal Blue before due time, sending a huge soundboom which hits Yu and his yacht, and Yu's weak bone structure cannot take the blow and is killed when all his bones break at the same time.
Yu is portrayed as being a ruthless and merciless killer, a detail which he inherited from his mother who, when Yu and her were poor in Hong Kong and had to resource to work as a paid assassin for the Hong Kong Snakehead, obtained. Several of Yu's employees prefer to commit suicide rather than face Yu's unspeakable punishments, an example of this is Dr. Bill Tanner, who left security down at the illegal organ transplant compound, allowing Alex to escape.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alex_Rider_characters
Major Winston Yu
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