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Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) A secret organisation plans to assassinate the French President, General de Gaulle. Their leader, Colonel Marc Rodin, decides to hire a professional, someone unknown to French police. He and his men choose "the Jackal." Can police detective Claude Lebel stop the killing and save the President's life?

The Cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading...it is a blight which must be stopped. One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He will not stop until he has completed his mission. Up to now the drug trade has been used to world governments attempting to prevent them plying their trade. But up to now, those governments have played by the rules. That is about to change. The rules no longer apply... and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier...

Forsyth Frederick shows once again he's a master of the political thriller by taking a simple but completely original idea and turning it into a compelling story. The unnamed Obama-like U.S. president, disgusted by the horrors wrought by illegal drug trafficking, decides to bring the entire weight and resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He first declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists, subjecting them to new and extensive legal procedures, then he brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux to head the team that will implement the effort (...)

"Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And yet he lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau. The Stasi arrested me, the Israelis regaled me, the IRA prompted a quick move from Ireland to England, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that's just for starters. All of that I saw from the inside. But all that time I was, nonetheless, an outsider.' Trained first as a pilot, then as a journalist, Frederick Forsyth finally turned to fiction and became one of the most lauded thriller writers of our time. As exciting as his novels, Forsyth's autobiography is a candid look at an extraordinary life lived to the full, a life whose unique experiences have provided rich inspiration for thirteen internationally bestselling thrillers."

Una novela de Frederick Forsyth tan potente comoChacal.Las instrucciones del presidente son: Identificar, localizar, destruir.En el norte de Virginia se encuentra la sede de la TOSA, una unidad gubernamental de actividades de soporte para operaciones tecnicas. Pero su verdadera y unica mision es identificar, localizar y destruir a quienes representan una amenaza para Estados Unidos. Sus nombres se apuntan en una lista aprobada por el presidente conocida como la lista de asesinables. Ahora figura un nombre nuevo: el Predicador.Nadie conoce su identidad. Solo se sabe que es el responsable de diecisiete asesinatos y que utiliza internet para radicalizar a jovenes musulmanes. Pero acaba de cometer un gran error: su ultima victima es un general jubilado de los marines y el padre del Rastreador, miembro destacado de la TOSA. Con un dominio perfecto del arabe, el Rastreador lleva seis años dedicado a eliminar a los altos mandos de Al Qaeda. Esta vez, su mision es personal.Empieza la caza.La critica ha dicho...Forsyth tiene un don para crear argumentos dethriller creibles.Entertainment WeeklyNadie escribe tan bien acerca del mundo real como Forsyth, yLa lista supera sus estandares, que normalmente ya son altos.BooklistAlgunos autores dethrillers de espionaje ya saben mucho antes de sentarse a escribir, pero el rey de todos ellos es Frederick Forsyth.The Washington Times

Una novela de Frederick Forsyth tan potente comoChacal.Las instrucciones del presidente son: Identificar, localizar, destruir.En el norte de Virginia se encuentra la sede de la TOSA, una unidad gubernamental de actividades de soporte para operaciones tecnicas. Pero su verdadera y unica mision es identificar, localizar y destruir a quienes representan una amenaza para Estados Unidos. Sus nombres se apuntan en una lista aprobada por el presidente conocida como la lista de asesinables. Ahora figura un nombre nuevo: el Predicador.Nadie conoce su identidad. Solo se sabe que es el responsable de diecisiete asesinatos y que utiliza internet para radicalizar a jovenes musulmanes. Pero acaba de cometer un gran error: su ultima victima es un general jubilado de los marines y el padre del Rastreador, miembro destacado de la TOSA. Con un dominio perfecto del arabe, el Rastreador lleva seis años dedicado a eliminar a los altos mandos de Al Qaeda. Esta vez, su mision es personal.Empieza la caza.La critica ha dicho...Forsyth tiene un don para crear argumentos dethriller creibles.Entertainment WeeklyNadie escribe tan bien acerca del mundo real como Forsyth, yLa lista supera sus estandares, que normalmente ya son altos.BooklistAlgunos autores dethrillers de espionaje ya saben mucho antes de sentarse a escribir, pero el rey de todos ellos es Frederick Forsyth.The Washington Times

The Kill List: a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the worlds security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this mans identity, locate him and take him out.

La novela más intensa y ambiciosa que se ha escrito sobre la guerra del Golfo, por el maestro del genero de suspense Frederick Forsyth. Con su indiscutible autoridad en temas militares y de alto espionaje, Frederick Forsyth nos lleva desde la planificacion estrategica de Saddam Hussein hasta las arriesgadas misiones de comandos especiales tras las lineas iraquies. La historia gira en torno a una terrible arma secreta que obra en poder del ejercito iraqui y cuyo uso puede deparar una estrepitosa derrota de las fuerzas aliadas. Solo hay una manera de evitar el peligro que se cierne sobre Occidente: infiltrar un agente en la propia Bagdad con una mision suicida... El puño de Dios narra en clave de ficcion los pormenores de un conflicto belico que conmovio al mundo y constituye una de las mejores novelas de Forsyth, maestro de narradores.

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O.A.S., to assassinate General de Gaulle. 'Mr Forsyth is clever. Very clever and immensely entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH