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Customer Review: Not one of his best works
This third novel written by master action / suspense writer Frederick Forsyth was not, unfortunately, one of his best. More than one third of the book is a long description of logistics that will make the reader bored and wat to jum pages. It's an endless descritption of buying suplies, of stock market actions, etc, with the purpose of giving credibility to the action itself. But it backfired.
Customer Review: An acquired taste, yes, but absolutely delicious
I re-read this book every couple of years. Sometimes I buzz through the parts about Swiss bank account transfers and customs-house forms. Other times I drink in all those technical details like sweet cherry wine. Depends on your miood, I guess. Regardless, I always savor the action sequences, which are relayed in splendid detail, and Forsyth's unique brand of gallows humor. This is about how one man sets up and carries out a coup d'etat, dollar by dollar, bullet by bullet. It it not just a shoot-em-up, and those who wish to read such a book should go elsewhere. But for those who savor the details, and the taste of a "foaming schoner of Flemish ale" shared among wild geese in an Ostend bar at the end of a good day's scheming and plotting, this book is one in a million.


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