Forsyth, Frederick (Vol. 5) - Forsyth, Frederick 1938–
Forsyth, Frederick 1938–
Forsyth, a novelist and journalist, is best known for The Odessa File and The Day of the Jackal.
"The Day of the Jackal" was a taut if occasionally long-winded thriller in which the assassin's beat-the-clock planning meshed excitingly with the book's action. "The Dogs of War" force-marches the reader through more than 300 pages of mercenary "Cat" Shannon's preparations to take over a platinum-rich African country, Zangaro, for a rapacious English mining magnate—only to reach a climax that lies there like lead.
It may be that Frederick Forsyth has got himself stoned on the "Mission Impossible" formula, in which technical know-how substitutes for substance. So much of "Dogs" is concerned with the washing of illicit funds in Brussels and Zurich, the setting up of dummy companies and funny-money dodges, the bribing of gunrunners and government officials with cash and contracts, that the novel gets lost in...
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