The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth

THE AFGHAN FREDERICK FORSYTH BOOK DETAILS • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Corgi Books • Publish date: 13 Aug 2007 • ISBN-10: 0552155047 • ISBN-13: 978-0552155045 Book RRP is £6.99 but is available on Amazon used, new and collectable all from 1p Also available on E Bay new £1.99 free postage and package INTRODUCTION I have read several Forsyth books in the past and generally found them to be very absorbing thrillers, usually with some sort of political background. When I saw ‘The Afghan’, his thirteenth book that was written in 2006 about an Al Qaeda terrorist attack, and I read the info on ... more

If you enjoy an action-thriller, then this is definately for. Set in the modern day, you can sense the realism, beacause the book is about a real hreat. Al-Qaeda. Forsyth superbly portrays modern-day espionage. The story is about the CIA catching wind of an Al-Qaeda operation, so they send in the best they have, Colonel Mike Martin. They send him in as Izmat Khan, a former al-Qaeda operative who's still banged up in Guantanamo. They teach him what he has to know, but then he's on his own. He looks as if he's about to uncover the plot, but do Al-Qaeda know about his real origins??? An excellent ... more