Feb 20, 2005 04:46 PM
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(Updated Feb 20, 2005 04:46 PM)
THE DEVIL's ALTERNATIVE is one of the best novels I have read on the intelligence and international espionage.
I have read other novels by sir Frederick Forsyth like the day of the jackal, dogs of war, Fist of God, Odessa File and each one of it was mind blowing. Devil's Alternative stands equal with The day of the Jackal, if not more.
While reading the novel, one comes across with working styles of the CIA, SIS, KGB. There elaborate plans, their capability to act in the faces of emergency and their internal struggles. The russian politburo is widely covered in this Novel and we come to know about the internal struggles in the heart of the Kremlin.
The interconnection between arms treaty between USA and russia, Hijacking of a giant Oil carrier, Crop failure disaster in Russia and much more makes it a compulsion for the reader to finish the 2nd half of the novel in one sitting. I myself finished the last 250 pages of the novel in one sitting....
Sir Frederick Forsyth, as you know, has a mind blowing writing style. The details that he provides about everything in his novels, one is bound to believe it really happened. The way he handles the situations like the communication between the most powerful people of the world, USA President and British PM and the Russian President is astonishing. Each one of them has to face, at some point of time in the novel, a situation in which they are only left with the devil's alternative. The hijacking by a few ukranian terrorists can lead to such a great confusion in the whole of Europe and USA, even the terrorists were unaware of.
I haven't read other Forsyth novels like The fourth protocol, the deciever, the Icon. etc....and now I think of finishing all these novels as soon as possible...I am really a fan of Sir Frederick Forsyth...
I guarantee that you will get glued to this book after you are through the action of first 150-200 pages and then you wont be able to leave the novel before you finish it.
