It is always exciting to read a Frederick Forsyth novel. The meticulous plots and attention to detail in his novels really make his story telling awesome. Though not as intense as his last ‘The Cobra’, his current novel ‘The Kill List’ is one of the best reads of this season.
Not a long novel at only 330 pages, it makes up for the short length by being a page turner. In the past few years, it is not often I’ve come across stories which are difficult to put down for the night, but The Kill List is one such.
A Pakistani origin Muslim terrorist (any wonder?), known only as the Preacher, starts to inspire killings in the name of jihad (again any wonder?). His tool is English-language videos uploaded from an untraceable location.
The job of stopping him falls to Kit Carson, an ex-Marine and spy known as the Tracker. Into the plot comes a reclusive teenage hacker and aggressive Somali pirates. All combine to make a riveting mishmash - the preacher, the tracker, the hacker and the hostage-takers.
If there is anything deficient of late with the master storyteller Frederick Forsyth, it is that his characters do not seem as memorable as they were in his earlier novels. I still remember Peter Miller from The Odessa File; John Preston (of Preston Progress fame) and the old Fox Sir Nigel Irvine from The Fourth Protocol.
Or even dry humour: The Fourth Protocol with Supreme Head of Intelligence Targeting (!).
:-D
All in all, The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth is a good read.
Not a long novel at only 330 pages, it makes up for the short length by being a page turner. In the past few years, it is not often I’ve come across stories which are difficult to put down for the night, but The Kill List is one such.
A Pakistani origin Muslim terrorist (any wonder?), known only as the Preacher, starts to inspire killings in the name of jihad (again any wonder?). His tool is English-language videos uploaded from an untraceable location.
The job of stopping him falls to Kit Carson, an ex-Marine and spy known as the Tracker. Into the plot comes a reclusive teenage hacker and aggressive Somali pirates. All combine to make a riveting mishmash - the preacher, the tracker, the hacker and the hostage-takers.
If there is anything deficient of late with the master storyteller Frederick Forsyth, it is that his characters do not seem as memorable as they were in his earlier novels. I still remember Peter Miller from The Odessa File; John Preston (of Preston Progress fame) and the old Fox Sir Nigel Irvine from The Fourth Protocol.
Or even dry humour: The Fourth Protocol with Supreme Head of Intelligence Targeting (!).
:-D
All in all, The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth is a good read.
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