La Alternativa Del Diablo / The Devil's Alternative

from TeaTimeCoder

Ridiculous in details but and interesting overarching plot. It's sad how little has changed since the cold war. Ukraine wants to break free from Soviet hegemony and the West couldn't care less and will in fact help Russians put them down just to make a deal. Am I describing the plot of the book o...

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This was fairly standard fare for a Forysth novel. The elements were all there, but I did not feel the intensity that I felt with The Day of the Jackal and I felt this to be one of his lesser works. It was still interesting, no doubt, but I don't feel it's among his better ones. 2.5 stars.

from Neilsantos

I am still enjoying my re-discovery of Forsyth, though this one was a little slower moving than some of his others. It had some really fantastic ideas for terrorist targets though. If I were an evil terrorist mastermind, I'd drop a super-tanker in the Suez and Panama. I say that easily, as if it ...

from reading_fox

Fairly standard Forsyth, not his very best, but still better than many. It's dated now of course, but perfectly readable for those who remember life without mobile phones everywhere! The setting is another USSR grain harvest failure (Cf Red Storm Rising) The russian Politburo realise they're in f...

from Borg-mx5

Makes me almost long for the day of the "Evil Empire".