Triads (Alex Rider)

Evil Organization
Full Name	The Triads
Alias	The Underworld The Chinese Underworld
Origin	Alex Rider
Foundation	18th Century
Headquarters	Hong Kong, China
Commanders	They all seem to function equally
Agents	At least 3,000 at the last count
Powers / Skills	Weaponry Intelligence Stealth Fanaticism
Goals	Destabilize the relationship between East and West and head for all out war (failed).
Crimes	Terrorism Murder Attempted murder Embezzlement
Type of Villains	Military Fanatics

“	This was a man who had been prepared to chase him over a 30-foot wave to hunt him down	„
	~ The Triads' personality.

The Triads are recurring antagonists in the Alex Rider books.

Biography

The Triads first appear in the book Skeleton Key when MI6 agent Crawly recruits Alex to investigate a break-in at the Wimbledon tennis. The Triads are employing one of their agents, a "little brother" to hack the system and make the bets on the players most likely to win. The Triad agent is drugging the player expected to lose with a mild drug which makes one's body unresponsive. Fortunately, Alex follows the Triad man, finds the man about to kill him with a fork lift, and fights the man, finally knocking him out amidst a refridgerator full of famous Wimbledon strawberries.

After this humiliation, the Triads meet again, and decide to send one of their men down to Cornwall, where Alex is on holiday with the Pleasures, and the Triads take revenge on the humiliation and their agent's imprisonment by hunting Alex across the Cribber wave which comes to England every few years. The man hunts Alex down on a jet ski and almost kills him, but Alex knocks him off the ski and the man is imprisoned, after being almost drowned.

The persistent, and furious Triad decide to kill Alex permanently, and they will return to England and may threaten Brookland school, but MI6 come to Alex's rescue and decide to send him down to Skeleton Key island to protect him, but send him to what appears to be World War Three, because General Sarov purchases uranium from a crook named the Salesman and worries the CIA.

Later

MI6 threaten the Triads to leave Alex alone and they eventually do so, not willing to engage with another military organization.

Later on in the year, the corrupt journalist Harry Bulman uses the Triads as his cover, hiring three Triad crooks to hunt Alex down in the Chelsea graveyard.

The Triads are one of the antagonists in Ark Angel as one of Nikolei Drevin's financial backers.