The Fist of God

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“ ‘The man with ten minutes to live was laughing.’ So begins Frederick Forsyth’s —and even with just that one line you can see that he has returned to the pulse-pounding form of such books as The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. Forsyth has written perhaps the first true thriller to come out of the Gulf War.”

— Book-of-the-Month Club News

“[A] fat, layered, complex, and altogether sublime spy action novel ...

is delicious yet authentic fun, the stuff of good espionage thrillers.”

— Chicago Sun-Times

“The Gulf War is the setting of Forsyth’s brilliantly plotted ‘what if’

thriller in which historical facts are turned into gripping fiction. ... It’s the mark of master Forsyth that characters and background information are introduced so cleanly and precisely that impossibly complex events are never confusing, and the story develops its grip so surely it’s almost impossible to put the book down.”

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