Frederick Forsyth returns, after seven years, with a sensational new action thriller
A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Ricky’s murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism.
From the battlefield of Vietnam via war-torn Serbia to the jungles of Central America,
Avenger is packed with riveting detail, breathtaking action and political suspense, while in Cal Dexter we meet an unforgettable hero in the most dynamic Forsyth tradition.
Author ProfileFrederick Forsyth is the author of ten bestselling novels:
The Day of the Jackal,
The Odessa File,
The Dogs of War,
The Devil's Alternative,
The Fourth Protocol,
The Negotiator,
The Deceiver,
The Fist of God,
Icon and
Avenger. His other works include
The Biafra Story,
The Shepherd, two short story collections,
No Comebacks and
The Veteran, and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera,
The Phantom of Manhattan. He has also collected together an anthology of flying tales,
Great Flying Stories, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len Deighton and H.G. Wells. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
ReviewsOrchestrated into a steady ratcheting-up of tension that pays great dividends','Forsyth's storytelling mastery goes from strength to strength. Don't imagine you know what's going to happen next. Forsyth delivers a brilliant finale and a twist that'll make your head spin','Highly readable and with that trademark of impressive detail','This action-injected tale races from Vietnam to Bosnia to Washington and on to the jungles of Central America with a taut showdown and an ingenious twist at the end'
