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Click to view full description | 1. | Forsyth, Frederick Day of the Jackal
Transworld Publishers Limite 1973 Paperback
Paperback in average condition. Pages tight but yellowing.Frederick Forsyth's classic contribution to the thriller genre is The Day of the Jackal, an electrifying story about a man who is known only as the Jackal, the world's most dangerous, enigmatic, and elusive assassin. The Jackal has a new and extremely dangerous contract: to kill Charles de Gaulle, the world's most heavily guarded man. Definitely among the all-time greats.FROM THE PUBLISHERThe Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world.An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.''The Day Of The Jackal makes such comparable books that The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold seems like Hardy Boy mysteries.'' - The New York TimesFROM THE CRITICSGale Research''So plausible has Mr. Forsyth made his implausible villain . . . and so exciting does he lead him on his murderous mission against impossible odds,'' says New York Times Book Review critic Stanley Elkin, ''that even saintly readers will be hard put not to cheer this particular villain along his devious way.'' The author, however, notes that he considered the positive response to his villain a distinctly American response. ''There is this American trait of admiring efficiency,'' he explains to a Washington
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 | 2. | Forsyth, Frederick Devil's Alternative
Corgi 1980 Paperback
Paperback in average condition but very readable.
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| 3. | Forsyth, Frederick Fist of God
Bantam Books July 1995 Paperback
Paperback in average condition but very readable.The author of such classics as The Day of the Jackal returns with a seamless blending of the real and the imagined, of political assassination and high-tech military might, set behind the scenes of the Gulf War. As coalitionforces ready for battle against the Iraqi Army, a Western spy in Baghdad seeks a mysterious traitor named Jericho, who may hold the key to locating Saddam Hussein's secret weapon.FROM THE PUBLISHEROnly Frederick Forsyth, acknowledged master of international intrigue and suspense, could have created the one story about the Persian Gulf War that could never be revealed - until now. From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running their dangerous missions over Iraq to the heroic young spy planted deep in the heart of Baghdad, Forsyth's incomparable storytelling skill keeps the suspense at a breakneck pace. Unless the Allies can penetrate the Iraqi regime, they fear they will be sending the vast coalition of air and land forces they have mobilized after the invasion of Kuwait into a bloody desert Armageddon. Then word leaks out to British intelligence that Israel's Mossad had once run a mole in Iraq itself - someone in the highest levels of Saddam's government whose identity even the Mossad had never been able to discover. This is the mysterious ''Jericho,'' and into Baghdad, under the very eyes of Iraq's fearsome secret police, goes Major Mike Martin of Britain's elite Special Air Service Regiment, disguised as an Arab and determined to reestablish the
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| 4. | Forsyth, Frederick Odessa File
Transworld Distribution 1974 Paperback
Paperback in average condition but very readable. Owners inscription on first page.FROM THE PUBLISHERThe suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa''A carefully thought out, meticulously researched, documented... highly suspenseful work of fiction.''--Chicago Tribune....of a real-life fugitive known as the ''Butcher of Riga''...of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.''Every bit as exciting as its noted predecessor and even eerie.''-Cosmopolitan.Much more complex than the Jackal... intriguingly fact packed with relentless exporting, a protagonist propelled by an unstoppable force as suicidal as that of a lemming, and a time-factored chase ticking off to an explosive climax.''--The Cleveland Press.
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| 5. | Forsyth, Frederick The Fourth Protocol
London : Corgi 1984 (1985 [pri Paperback
Paperback in average condition but very readable.
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| 6. | Forsyth, Frederick The Shepherd
Corgi Books 1976 Paperback
Paperback in average condition but very readable. Illustrated by Lou Feck.FROM THE PUBLISHERA fighter pilot faces death. Lost in the black murk of night fog with no radio, no compass, and low fuel, he believes he's finished. He knows that soon his jet will slam into freezing waves and sink life a stone. But somehow he also knows that there's another plane out there--a plane that played through this same scenario years earlier and crashed. Unabridged.
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