Feb 26, 2004 01:56 PM
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(Updated Feb 26, 2004 01:58 PM)
How is a the hijacking of an oil tanker related near the english coast related to crop failure in the former soviet union?
The novel is set in the 80's (and was written about that time too) at the height of the power of the Soviet Union..
I read this novel a year before and I must have read it almost 20 times by now..
And I am not gonna tell you the story. And if you have heard it from somebody, forget it!
Read the novel on your own.. its simply too good!!
This novel is a typical Frederick Forsyth novel.. but is definitely his finest work of fiction .. by a large margin (even better than the Fist of God)
Warning:: I have read all Frederick Forsyth novels except the day of the jackal.. so the best novel that I have read of his is this one. Fist of God comes a distant second.
Forsyth's characters are brilliantly portrayed as usual and his descriptions are extremely vivid and real. You will be able to identify with some of the characters very strongly
He has brilliantly demonstrated the one-upmanship in the cat and mouse game of espionage
Sincere suggestion: Do NOT skip the epilogue and the prologue..
especially the prologue.. in the prologue Forsyth turns the story on its head... a mind bending ending
A must read
