PRAISE FOR
“ ‘The man with ten minutes to live was laughing.’ So begins Frederick Forsyth’s —and even with just that one line you can see that he has returned to the pulse-pounding form of such books as
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“[A] fat, layered, complex, and altogether sublime spy action novel ...
is delicious yet authentic fun, the stuff of good espionage thrillers.”
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“The Gulf War is the setting of Forsyth’s brilliantly plotted ‘what if’
thriller in which historical facts are turned into gripping fiction. ... It’s the mark of master Forsyth that characters and background information are introduced so cleanly and precisely that impossibly complex events are never confusing, and the story develops its grip so surely it’s almost impossible to put the book down.”
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“The novel ends in a blaze of top-notch military action, finely wrought descriptions of the gadgetry of destruction, and a twisty revelation. ...
Super sleuthing.”
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FREDERICK
FORSYTH
THE AMERICANS
George Bush President
James Baker Secretary of State
Colin Powell Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Norman Commander-in-Chief, Coalition Schwarzkopf Forces, Gulf Theater Lieutenant General Commander, Coalition Air Forces, Charles (Chuck) Horner Gulf Theater Brigadier General Deputy to Chuck Horner Buster Glosson
Bill Stewart Deputy Director (Operations), CIA Chip Barber Head, Middle East Division, CIA William Webster Director of Central Intelligence, CIA Don Walker USAF fighter pilot Steve Turner USAF fighter squadron commander Tim Nathanson Wizzo to Don Walker Randy Roberts Wingman to Don Walker Jim Henry Wizzo to Randy Roberts Harry Sinclair Head of London Station, CIA Saul Nathanson Banker and philanthropist The Fist of God
“Daddy” Lomax Retired nuclear physicist
THE BRITISH
Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister
John Major Thatcher’s successor as Prime Minister
Lieutenant General Commander, British Forces, Gulf Theater Sir Peter de la Billiere
Sir Colin McColl Chief, SIS
Sir Paul Spruce Chairman, British Medusa Committee
Brigadier J.P, Lovat Director, Special Forces
Colonel Bruce Craig Commanding Officer, 22nd SAS Regiment
Major Mike Martin Major, SAS
Major “Sparky” Low SAS Officer, Khafji Dr. Terry Martin Academic and Arabist Steve Laing Director of Operations, Mid-East Division, SIS
Simon Paxman Head of Iraq Desk, SIS
Stuart Harris British businessman, Baghdad Julian Gray Head of Station, SIS, Riyadh Dr. Bryant Bacteriologist, Medusa Committee Dr. Reinhart Poison gas expert, Medusa Committee Dr. John Hipwell Nuclear expert, Medusa Committee Sean Plummer Head of Arab Service, GCHQ
Wing Commander Commanding Officer, 608th Squadron, RAF
Philip Curzon
Squadron Leader Pilot, 608th Squadron, RAF
Lofty Williamson
Flight Lieutenant Williamson’s navigator Sid Blair
Flight Lieutenant Pilot, 608th Squadron Peter Johns
Flight Lieutenant Johns’s navigator Nicky Tyne
Sergeant Peter SAS man Stephenson
Corporal Ben Eastman SAS man
Corporal Kevin North SAS man
THE IRAQIS
Saddam Hussein President The Fist of God
Izzat Ibrahim Deputy President
Hussein Kamil Saddam’s son-in-law, head of MIMI
Taha Ramadam Prime Minister
Sadoun Hammadi Deputy Premier
Tariq Aziz Foreign Minister
Ali Hassan Majid Governor-General, occupied Kuwait General Saadi Tumah Commander, Republican Guard Abbas
General Ali Musuli Commander, Engineering Corps General Abdullah Commander, Armored Corps Kadiri
Dr. Amer Saadi Deputy to Hussein Kamil Brigadier Hassan Chief, Counterintelligence Rahmani
Dr. Ismail Ubaidi Chief, Foreign Espionage Brigadier Omar Chief, Secret Police (Amn-al-Amm) Khatib
Colonel Osman Colonel, Army Engineers Badri
Colonel Abdelkarim Colonel, Iraqi Air Force Badri
Dr. Jaafar Al-Jaafar Head, nuclear program Colonel Sabaawi Secret Police Chief, occupied Kuwait Dr. Salah Siddiqui Nuclear engineer
