The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth (1984)

The Fourth Protocol
by Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Viking / Viking Penguin Inc.
First Published in 1984
Copyright: 1984

The Fourth Protocol is Frederick Forsyth's most ingeniously constructed and tensely paced novel since The Day of the Jackal. A meticulously executed jewel robbery in London on New Year's Eve sets off the action with deceptive simplicity. Soon, however, readers are introduced to a train of plot and counterplot, calculation and mischance, that will carry them to the highest councils of Kremlin leadership, into the innermost workings of half a dozen intelligence services east and west of the Iron Curtain, and to the countdown of a contrived accident that could change the face of British politics forever and trigger the collapse of the Western Alliance.

It is to prevent this "accident" that agent John Preston, often impeded by certain skeptical superiors, runs a course that will take him thousands of miles, cost him endless bleak hours of surveillance, and lead him to doubt the loyalty of some of Her Majesty's most sensitively place servitors. At the end, hours countdown to minutes and seconds as Preston seeks to run to earth a seemingly insuperable foe.

Sweating palms and racing pulse -- these Frederick Forsyth has always known how to induce. Here he adds an additional dimension of satisfaction by his jigsaw genius for making apparently disparate elements -- a transferred KGB chauffeur, a boyhood on a South African farm, a civil servant with transvestite proclivities, a criminal with a fateful fondness for a calfskin attache case, a shady diamond cutter, the mysterious baggage of a Russian sailor mugged in Glasgow -- all click together like skillfully banked billiard balls, with profoundly pleasing precision and purposes. The master is back and at the very top of his form.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover shows shelf wear and a bit of edge wear. Pages may be tanning from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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