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Summary: Tremendous book
Review: Frederick Forsyth gives an inside look at world espionage today. I suggest reading this book and Clancy's "Executive Orders"...it really opens your eyes.
The book will leave you hungry for more...
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Summary: "unputdownable"
Review: Forsyth yet again displays his unique understanding of espionage and historicity to produce another classic covert operations thriller with some nice twists.Certainly one of his best.
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Summary: It grabs you and won't let go.
Review: This book demands unstopable reading. Exposing so many spionage insides, behind the scenes war management, and a thrilling spy story, it mixes fiction with facts too well to figure them apart again. It also scares you describing iraquian wartime procedures and Saddan's satanic madness. The whole thrill amazes you, but watch out the last page where in a few lines Forsyth reveal the mistery arround the "Jerico" spy and changes the entire story too fast. All in all, buy and read it. It sure is worth.
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Summary: Classic Forsyth, unmatched since "The Day of the Jackal"
Review: Forsyth tells the gripping tale of events, both fact and fiction, surrounding the Gulf War. The Israeli Mossad has just revealed to the CIA and SIS the existance of an agent inside the Iraqi Hierarchy, willing to report on Saddam's most secret meetings. The spy, code-named Jericho, is contacted by an SAS man disguised as a groundskeeper. Valuable information flows from Baghdad to Riyadh until the existance of something called "The Fist of God" is reported by Jericho. This, coupled with the findings of a brash F-15 pilot, unleashes a horrifying nightmare for the Coalition leaders. A little slow moving, a little too much technical detail, but still a taut, suspenseful, and believable novel
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Ok, here's the plot. Two brothers, Englishmen who grew up in Iraq, are now faced with waging war against the country of their youth. One is a professor, the other a commando in the elite British Special Air Service, the SAS. Sound trite? Perhaps. But, I assure you the story is not. Forsyth spins a suspenseful yarn about a subject somewhat known to most of us, the desert war. With a BIG twist. If you enjoyed "Day of the Jackal", you will not be disappointed by this read. Forsyth intertwines known, confirmed events with those unknown, and does so with such convincing mastery that one wonders "did that happen?". Read this and you will not be disappointed
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Summary: The Fist of God, brilliantly delivered!
Review: In my opinion, Frederick Forsyth was unable to outdo himself since the success of The Day of the Jackel, until The Fist of God. He has regained his position and authority with his latest fiction, but is it really a fiction? Or is it what really happened during the Gulf war? Known only to the top military and political leaders of the Coaliation forces until Frederick Forsyth tells it all.
The style of writing is similar to The Day of the Jackel - full of suspense and most importantly, the story is believable! It makes readers realize that the Coaliation forces could have lost the war to the Iraqis.
This is definitely the book to read.
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Summary: brilliant! Forsyth's best book
Review: Fist of God is Forsyth's best (and longest) novel. Based on the first Gulf War, it is an intriguing blend of actual events and personalities with great storytelling. The military detail rivals that of Tom Clancy's better technothrillers, and the political and espionage coverage is vintage Forsyth. In Fist of God, he weaves agents from the SAS, SIS, CIA, Mossad, and several Iraqi branches in the runup to the Coalition invasion and its short duration. Nice blend of plot, detail, suspense, and character development across the board. Also includes prescient remarks about human intelligence in what Forsyth calls "A Final Note." Written in 1994, it was ahead of its time regarding WMD, etc.
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Summary: A master at work, yet again
Review: Reading a Forsyth novel is a bit like watching a Scorsese mob movie; you know that you are in the presence of someone who is a true master of their art. "Fist of God" is maybe Forsyth's best, and that is saying something. He follows the structure familiar to anyone who has read any of his previous works, beginning with a broad panapoly of characters, then gradually bringing them together for a nerve-jangling climax. You will finish this novel with a new perspective on the war in the Gulf, which is both the author's intent and the true joy of the book
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Summary: Makes you wonder...
Review: ... how many things we don't know about the Desert Storm operation, for instance why it was not completed with the deposition of Saddam Hussein...
After The Deceiver (which certainly is not Forsyth at his best), another great book, more future political fiction than a thriller or a spy story.
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Summary: brilliant! Forsyth's best book
Review: Fist of God is Forsyth's best (and longest) novel. Based on the first Gulf War, it is an intriguing blend of actual events and personalities with great storytelling. The military detail rivals that of Tom Clancy's better technothrillers, and the political and espionage coverage is vintage Forsyth. In Fist of God, he weaves agents from the SAS, SIS, CIA, Mossad, and several Iraqi branches in the runup to the Coalition invasion and its short duration. Nice blend of plot, detail, suspense, and character development across the board. Also includes prescient remarks about human intelligence in what Forsyth calls "A Final Note." Written in 1994, it was ahead of its time regarding WMD, etc.
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