No Comebacks

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Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 336
Publisher:: Cornerstone
Publication Date:: 07 April 2011
Category:: Thriller and Suspense
ISBN:: 9780099559870

Description

Deception, blackmail, murder, and revenge - these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin to Dordogne. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, the cruel confidence trick or the cold shock of coincidence, Frederick Forsyth is never less than compulsive, the detail always authentic. Ten stories with the master's touch - this is a brilliantly readable first collection by an incomparable craftsman of suspense.

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Superb collection of short tales. The common theme if there is one, is the strength of the underdog, and or common man. the atles feature the usual list of suspects for contempary thriller - murderers, poisenings, cheats and frauds etc, however the hero usual wins through by leverness of mind rather than brute force. In fact for a thriller there is hardly any action at all, mearly a well placed world and an unexpected ending. Great writing, clever snapshots of the human condition. My favourite though perhaps least typical is 'The Emporer' a sort of re-telling of Hemmingway's classic the Old Man and the Sea. very enjoyable, fairly light reading, better than many of the novels.

5.00 out of 5

reading_fox
Very good short stories by Frederick Forsyth.

4.00 out of 5

missmath144