Bibliography

The Biafra Story, first published in paperback by Penguin Books in 1969, marked Frederick Forsyth's transition from journalist to author. An insightful record of the Biafran War, which Nigeria fought to prevent the secession of its eastern province, it also voices Forsyth's outrage at the extremes of human violence as well as the duplicity of the Western governments who tacitly accepted or actively aided that violence. The research and experience of this work later found expression in another of Forsyth's work, the eminently successful novel about the mercenaries, "The Dogs of War".

Thanks to Kajal Das for providing information about this book.

The Day Of The Jackal

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1971

To my Mother and Father

1963
The OAS is losing financing, losing support and losing members. Fast. The new operations chief, Colonal Marc Rodin, plans the hit that will work. It will bring back the supporters to bring him to power. The plan of the Jackal was launched.

The Jackal was an anonymous Englishman, outstanding in his profession - assassin. Yet the police did not know about him. He was the ideal candidate for the OAS's work.

The French authorities must put many plans into action to try to hunt down and stop this Jackal - a hunt that goes on right to the last moment...

The Odessa File

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1972

To all Press reporters

Author's Note
It is customary for authors to thank those who have helped them to compile a book, particularly on a difficult subject, and in doing so to name them. All those who helped me, in however small a way, by assisting me to get the information I needed to write The Odessa File are entitled to my heartfelt thanks, and if I do not name them it is for three reasons.
Some, being former members of the SS, were not aware at the time either who they were talking to or that what they said would end up in a book. Others have specifically asked that their names never be mentioned as sources of information about the SS. In the case of others still, the decision not to mention their names is mine alone, and taken I hope for their sakes rather than for mine.
F.F.

1964
This is the story of the hunt by newspaperman Peter Miller for SS killers living under false identities produced by the Odessa - the organisation for former memebers of the SS. In the end he uncovers far more than he was looking for...

The Dogs of War

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1974

For Giorgio, and Christian and Schlee
And Big Marc and Black Johnny,
And the others in the unmarked graves.
At least we tried.

'Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war' - William Shakespeare

'That ... be not told of my death,
Or made to grieve on account of me,
And that I be not buried in consecrated ground,
And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell,
And that nobody is wished to see my dead body,
And that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral,
And that no flowers be planted on my grave,
And that no man remember me,
To this I put my name.' - Thomas Hardy

Sir James Manson - smooth, ruthless City tycoon - discovered the existance of a ten-billion-dollar mountain of platinum in the remote African republic of Zangaro. With a hired army of trained mercenaries, Manson planned to topple the government of Zangaro and replace its dictator with a puppet president. But news of the platinum had leaked to russia - and suddenly Manson found he no longer made the rules in a power-game where the stakes had become terrifyingly high...

The Shepherd

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1975

For my darling wife Carole

On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave - 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire. This, Forsyth's own flying story, is also featured in his compilation of flying stories, Great Flying Stories.

The Devil's Alternative

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1979

For Frederick Stuart,
who does not know yet

1982
A disasterous mistake in the USSR has left the Russians with only a fraction of their usual grain crop. This is the worst possible time for Max Rudin, attempting to hold the Politburo on his side, away from his enemy, who is attempting to gain control of Russia, then the whole of Europe...

Meanwhile, the world's largest oil tanker, the Freya, carrying one million tons of crude oil, sets off on its maiden voyage, to the attention of worldwide press. Little did they know she would become an even larger part of people's attention, as a group of terrorists board her with their deceptively simple demand - little did they know that this demand could cause the deaths of millions...

No Comebacks

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1982
Some stories also date from 1972, 1973 and 1979.

For Carrie

This is a compilation of short stories by Frederick Forsyth. These ten stories are:

· No Comebacks
A rich philanderer plans to kill the husband of the woman he loves.

· There are no Snakes in Ireland
An Indian student plans revenge against his tormenting employer.

· The Emperor
A banker wins a holiday to Mauritius, and ends up battling a great fish to the death on a game fishing trip.

· There are Some Days...
Murphy has planned a hijacking to give tens of thousands of pounds' worth of French brandy, but nothing is going well.

· Money with Menaces
A businessman finds himself in a situation of blackmail after spending a lunch break with a prostitute.

· Used in Evidence
The demolition of an old man's house uncovers a dead body.

· Privilege
A businessman is libelled in a newspaper, but plans an unconventional method of bringing this to the public's attention.

· Duty
A chance encounter in France leads to the resurrection of old memories.
"It has been pointed out to me that the following story is out of character with the others in this collection and fits into no category. It is pure idiosyncrasy on my part, but I have decided to include it anyway. It was told to me by an Irish friend and he swore it was absolutely true and had happened to him. For this reason, unlike all the other stories, I have elected to tell it in the first person.
F.F."

· A Careful Man
A millionaire with terminal cancer must now make a will. But to whom should his wealth be left?

· Sharp Practice
A judge engages in a game of poker with two other passengers on the train, without knowing anything about them.

The Fourth Protocol

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1984

For Shane Richard, without whose loving attentions this book would have been written in half the time.

1986/1987
Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outisde Moscow, led by Kim Philby, and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan that in its madness - and spine-chilling ingenuity - breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare.

A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. Working blind against the most urgent of deadlines, and against treachery and lethal power games in his own organisation, MI5 agent John Preston leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous devastation aimed and tumbling Britain into revolution.

The Negotiator

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1989

To the men of the Special Forces of the free world

1991
The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he wil be psychologically and emotionaly destroyed. Only one man can stop him - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnappers' real objective ...

The Deceiver

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1991

The Cold War lasted forty years. For the record, the West won it. But not without cost. This book is for those who spent so much of their lives in shadowed places. Those were the days, my friends.

Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives. The end of the Cold War has, however strenghtened the hand of those in Whitehall who wish to dispose of him.

Sharp-minded, somewhat cynical, McCready is a maverick whose independent style has often driven him beyond the mark. He has not been afraid to press the CIA to the explosion point in an effort to convince them that their prize defector is a double agent. Once, he hired a low-level German agent as a courier to deliver a priceless Soviet document to the West - a man he subsequently had to race teh KBG to find. He sent an Ulster veteran deep into Libya to subvert a Quaddaffi plot to ship a lethal crop of arms to the IRA and terrorise Britain. And most recently there was the notorious instance when he acted far beyound his brief, taking over a remote Caribbean island torn between Fidel Castro and the Colombian drug trade.

The four stories that this book contains are:

· Pride and Extreme Prejudice

· The Price of the Bride

· A Casualty of War

· A Little Bit of Sunshine.

The Fist of God

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1994

For the widows and orphans of the Special Air Service Regiment.
And for Sandy, without whose support this would have been so much harder.

To those who know what really happened in the Gulf, and who spoke to me about it; my sincere thanks.
You know who you are;
Let it be.

1990/1991
During those fateful weeks befre Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a fragment of radio intercept had referred to Qubth-ut-Allah, a devastating secret weapon that could rain death and destruction on the Allied forces.

Despite Allied scepticism, Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass as an Arab, is sent into Kuwait to assess Iraqi strength and help the resistance. What he discovers there takes him into the heart of Baghdad, where he is to 'run' the Iraqi spy known as Jericho, the sleeper who might be prepared to provide vital information for money. It is a highly dangerous operation, the results of which cause the Allies to delay their ground assault for four days - while Martin parachutes into the Iraqi mountains on the most hazardous mission of his life: to find and destroy Qubth-ut-Allah - the Fist of God.

Not until you read The Fist Of God will you realise why Saddam Hussein thought he could win the Gulf War and so refused to pull out of Kuwait.

Icon

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1996

For Sandy

1999
Russia is on the verge of collapse. Elections are drawing near and there is one candidate who is promising reforms to help with currency, crime and corruption. Igor Komarov is promising to restore the glory. But sources for the West find out that he is a new Adolf Hitler in waiting. The race is on to prevent history repeating itself.

The Phantom of Manhattan

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 1999

This is a departure from Frederick Forsyth's normal thriller books. It is a sequal to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. Inspired by a meeting with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who longed for a sequel to his world-renowned musical, Forsyth decided after extensively researching the subject to rekindle the legend.

The story opens in 1906, 12 years after the Phantom escapes a bloodthirsty mob at L'Opera in Paris and mysteriously vanishes without a trace. On her death bed, the Mistress of the Chorus, Madame Anionette Giry, confesses that she plucked a horrifically deformed boy from a carnival prison and spirited him away to live in recesses of L'Opera.

Keeping to the shadowy nooks of the opera house, Erik Mulhiem, became known as the Phantom, living a mysterious, solitary existence. However, that abruptly ended when he fell in love with a beautiful diva, Christine Daae. Unable to control his obsession, he flees to America with the help of Madame Giry. There, after years of destitution and misery, he builds a vast empire and devises a plan to ensnare his beloved Christine.

The Veteran

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 2001
Some stories also date from 2000.

This is a compilation of new, short(ish) stories by Frederick Forsyth. These are the stories that were going to be published online as Quintet, but were never finished. They have now been published in book form, under the title The Veteran. The five stories included are:

· The Veteran
A detective fights a case against two thugs who beat a walker into a coma, only to find his case torn apart by a brilliant barrister.

· The Miracle
An American tourist in Italy is told the compelling story of a wartime miracle.

· The Citizen
A complex tale of strange dealings and drug smuggling aboard a flight from Bangkok to London.

· The Art of the Matter
An oil painting, thought by a group of auctioneers to be worth a pittance, is later sold on for a fortune as an Old Master.

· Whispering Wind
A story of the last white survivor serving under General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn, 1876.

Avenger

By Frederick Forsyth

First Published: 2003

This book is due to be published in September 2003.

Amazon has the following to say about this book:
The avenger is Calvin Dexter, outwardly a small-town US lawyer, who was shaped into a formidable killing machine by Vietnam. There are horrific flashbacks to his war career as a "Tunnel Rat", fighting the Vietcong at close quarters in their own deadly underground labyrinths. After taking the law into his own hands for a bitter personal revenge on a Central American mobster, Dexter hires out his expertise to grab untouchable criminals from safe havens and deliver them into the clutches of US justice.

His latest assignment is the toughest of all. A young American aid worker in fractured Yugoslavia met a revolting death at the hands of an ethnic-cleansing squad led by a Serbian war criminal. The boy's billionaire grandfather can afford an expensive revenge, but the trail seems cold... until, step by step, face-to-face investigation, lucky breaks, unstinting bribery and advanced computer hacking techniques trace the links from Serbia to the United Arab Emirates, a private plane, and a corrupt banana republic where the now very rich villain has the president and secret police on his payroll. Assaulting his massively guarded fortress--whose layers of defence include piranha, attack dogs and sharks deliberately given a taste for blood--would be one hell of a job even if Dexter had surprise on his side. But there are complications in high places. The CIA wants to use that Serbian killer as a stalking-horse in an elaborate operation against Al Qaeda, and issues an urgent warning that the avenger is coming...

Dexter plans an elegant, witty and almost bloodless coup, a sting in the style of Leslie Charteris's Saint rather than a Bond-type frontal assault. With the whole country mobilised against him, though, what chance does he have? Dexter, and Forsyth, may surprise you. The author has a knack for making background information vitally interesting: potted life histories of the characters (including big wheels in the FBI and CIA) are almost as compulsively readable as the major action scenes. Surprises and unmaskings continue until the final pages of this superior thriller.

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