07-11-2022, 08:48 PM
His first three novels were the best:
The Day of the jackel....thriller novel
The Odessa File............suspense novel {Roschman the Bither of Riga died Augus 1977}
The Dogs of War.......... the best of them all....although :....Shannon commits suicide because he has less than a year to live..in the UK verisan but not in US Versain its because he has Lung cancer.....although it does take a leap of faith as to how a semi retried physician with no office equipment [not even an X ray] could come to such a diagonius..! Forsyth always left two plot holes...for example Lamborgotti's fate..is always ambigious...its plain he does not survive...a clue is that in his biography its stated that he suffers from acute claustraophia of small enclosed places...and that a possible reason he "disappears"--is that he was captured and innured in a dungeon where he goes insane and is ultimating killed...another is that the unnamed mercenery writer in the book by his own admission writes for a living..blackmails Mason to obtaining a livelong pension....in return for his silence...about the part Mason had been in bringing coupde taut Inronically Sir James Mason and his associates will probably become rich as they intended-only not as cheaply as they had planned since the book points out that while Bodi is the perfect figurehead government leader he commands no power among any of the groups of "Zangaro" [The two tribes and the immigrants].TC) In fact in real life as explained in the beginning of the book of western companies and African Heads of State Eadean would be sent back to Zangaro to make a usual Busineess arrangement for the mining of the Plantatin...The "General" would indeed furnish the manpower and Mason Co the equipment ..the only difference being the "General" would probably decline a "investment" donation to his personel account..although he would welcome a sizeable "donation" to the country treasury since his counties just about bankrupt anyway.... While Forsyth gives a "red herring" that Eadean will lose a chance of a fortune because of Bodi death...after all the epilogue says only that Mason and Eadean say nothing publicly about the Coup de tat..but never says that they didnt get rich..after all! Thus if Bodi became the new dictator he would be overthrown and killed (since Kimba was his only support); the country would collapse because of a power vacum and Mason would not get his hands on the Plantatin at all!
The Day of the jackel....thriller novel
The Odessa File............suspense novel {Roschman the Bither of Riga died Augus 1977}
The Dogs of War.......... the best of them all....although :....Shannon commits suicide because he has less than a year to live..in the UK verisan but not in US Versain its because he has Lung cancer.....although it does take a leap of faith as to how a semi retried physician with no office equipment [not even an X ray] could come to such a diagonius..! Forsyth always left two plot holes...for example Lamborgotti's fate..is always ambigious...its plain he does not survive...a clue is that in his biography its stated that he suffers from acute claustraophia of small enclosed places...and that a possible reason he "disappears"--is that he was captured and innured in a dungeon where he goes insane and is ultimating killed...another is that the unnamed mercenery writer in the book by his own admission writes for a living..blackmails Mason to obtaining a livelong pension....in return for his silence...about the part Mason had been in bringing coupde taut Inronically Sir James Mason and his associates will probably become rich as they intended-only not as cheaply as they had planned since the book points out that while Bodi is the perfect figurehead government leader he commands no power among any of the groups of "Zangaro" [The two tribes and the immigrants].TC) In fact in real life as explained in the beginning of the book of western companies and African Heads of State Eadean would be sent back to Zangaro to make a usual Busineess arrangement for the mining of the Plantatin...The "General" would indeed furnish the manpower and Mason Co the equipment ..the only difference being the "General" would probably decline a "investment" donation to his personel account..although he would welcome a sizeable "donation" to the country treasury since his counties just about bankrupt anyway.... While Forsyth gives a "red herring" that Eadean will lose a chance of a fortune because of Bodi death...after all the epilogue says only that Mason and Eadean say nothing publicly about the Coup de tat..but never says that they didnt get rich..after all! Thus if Bodi became the new dictator he would be overthrown and killed (since Kimba was his only support); the country would collapse because of a power vacum and Mason would not get his hands on the Plantatin at all!