Not usual standard but still worth reading.
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In terms of pace this one takes an age to get going.
It is rich in background detail as is the author's norm, and descriptive as ever too.
Somehow it lacks the punch of his other work.
It is as if he lost the passion for it about two thirds of the way through.
Still very much worth reading, but not his best work.
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The Afghan
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Formulaic stuff here,but that is what We buy Forsyth for,once again,the research and the detail are immense,and unlike his previous Major Mike Martin offering the Fist of God,wholly believable,not his best but far from his worst
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Again well researched but well short of authors best,
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Frederick Forsyth's novels are extremely well researched and give the reader a fairly accurate and interesting account of history and the world of covert operations and war. However the plot and characters in this novel are not as interesting or convincing as his previous novels. There is also one coincidence that is so outrageous that you feel like throwing the book at the wall. Read his other books first as I would hate you to think that this books standard is all what the author is capable of.
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one of the millions of the same book
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I am fed up of the Muslim terrorist blowing up some places. Very bias book with lots of argumentative informations. What has happened to the creativity of Forsyth. Has he lost his touch? Dont waste your time with this one.
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Ridiculous plot coincidence ruins book...
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I was quite enjoying this book despite, as has been mentioned in other reviews, the virtual "disappearance" of the lead character half way through the book, then all of a sudden an event occurs with a crashed fighter jet which is so unlikely and improbable that it completely ruins the whole book.
I will now describe this moment so if you do not want the any plot details revealed stop reading but I feel I must point it out -
We are expected to believe a fighter jet just happened to malfunction (due to an engineer leaving a spanner somewhere on the jet by accident) at the time it just happened to be flying directly over a secret bunker, just happened to destroy part of it and kill some of the agents, just happened to destroy the wall where the prisoner was held and just happened to give him a chance to escape...what a load of nonsense. The chances of this happening are so remote that it really is beyond ridiculous.
How intelligent critics who are paid to review books can look past this ludicrous plot moment I fail to understand. I can`t bring myself to read any more of this terrible book so would advise anyone else not to bother unless you want quite good background information on the situation in Afghanistan, as this has ruined the book for me completely.
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