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Title: The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0-553-25113-9 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (23 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: average for Forsyth, but pretty good overall
Comment: This is not Forsyth's best book, but it's not too much of a dropoff from The Day of the Jackal. The Soviets have a plot that will lead England to be a socialist ally, and it is up to a fairly minor British civil servant to thwart it. The plot versus the detective work is told simultaneously like in the Jackal. There's a nice section about uncovering a false-flag spy operation in London, and it's a jewel theft of all things that gets the ball rolling. An interesting disparity is set up between the Brit detective and his spy chief; one thinks the USSR can be beaten outright while the other feels he must acknowledge the USSR as an enemy that's here to stay.
Rating: 5
Summary: "The Fourth Protocol" is one of Forsyth's most exciting.
Comment: Frederick Forsyth is a master of complex plotting and this book, published in 1985, is without a doubt one of his most complex."The Fourth Protocol" begins quite humbly with the simple burglary and theft of a mult-million dollar set of diamond jewelry from a London town home. Finding a sparkling tiara won't fit into his own carrying case, the burglar takes an attache case belonging to the owner and thereby saves the entire Western Alliance from collapse. Only Forsythe could pull this off. He does so with a cast of dozens, meticulous attention to plot detail and the sure knowledge of his readers' fear of communism and nuclear terrorism in the 1980s. The story begins slowly, but manages to hold the reader's interest through a series of accidents, mayhem and shrewd deductions of British intelligence officer John Preston. The story takes us back and forth from Europe to the Soviet Union, from Pretoria, South Africa to a U.S. air base in England, and all over Europe. Each new revelation brings the reader a little closer to the edge of his chair and the ending nearly sends him to hide underneath. Even though this thriller is somewhat dated in its Cold War mentality, it is still a wonderful, compelling novel. With only a bit of paranoia, the reader can substitute a Middle-East villain for the aging Soviet one in this novel, and scare himself silly.
Rating: 4
Summary: Cold War classic
Comment: Frederick Forsyth's "The Fourth Protocol" written in 1984 before the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. is a classic offering in the political thriller and espionage genre.
A by product of a jewel theft in London is the discovery that sensitive clandestine information has been traitorously pilfered by George Berenson, a member of the British Ministery of Defense.
High ranking agent of the British Secret Service, M15, John Preston has been assigned to plug the leak and evaluate the damage. Exhaustive investigation unearths a plot nurtured through a South African source and eminating from the very top of the Soviet government. British traitor, Harold Philby, now a colonel in the KGB, has inspired a plot approved by the Soviet Secretary General created to topple the reigning British government. A pact to avoid broaching the "fourth protocol" would be violated resulting in the establishment of the hard left, Communist sympathetic Labour Party as the rulers of the British government. The fourth protocol was part of a treaty signed by nuclear powers is avoid certain types of nuclear proliferation.
Forsyth creates a hard biting, chilling thriller that traverses through the highest channels of several governments. Such a scenario is still plausible in the tumultuous political climate existent today.
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Title: The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553264907 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553271989 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553572423 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Icon by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553574604 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553268465 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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