Hey wait. This is not about the Bond Movie “Live and Let Die” which flocked Indian theatres decades ago.
No, This is not even the book adaptation of the movie “The Negotiator” in which Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey have done great act. But it is much more thrilling bookie stuff from the Fantastic Forsyth.
Forsyth has made his own James Bond in this book in the form of Quinn. the Negotiator. This Quinn is very intelligent, astute, articulate and innovative in his methods and is very different from the flashy James with his so many lover girls and gadgets. Forsyth takes you into a roller coaster ride of exciting and spell binding narration in which you feel you are moving with this negotiator and his girl friend Sam Somerville and experiencing every aspect of Forsyth adventure-Strategy, Deceit, Political games, action, thrills and perils in course of what goes on behind the Negotiator as well with far reaching consequences between Nations.
About The Author
Frederick Forsyth is definitely one of my favourites and he keeps you gripping in every novel that you get hold of his. Forsyth made his mark with the “Day of the Jackal“ and his hall mark is detail which any reader would admit. The Depth in narration gains with his intricate details which weaves the Story in Cobwebs of thrills and spills of Suspense and Drama.
The Plot
President of US, John Cormack’s young son is kidnapped when in Oxfordshire.The Negotiator of all Hostage negotiators Quinn is called from his exile to negotiate for the President’s son. You are made to direct your thoughts into this high profile kidnap and the way the negotiator is going to handle the ransom, but Forsyth simply makes a spiral on the actual motive of kidnap which is far beyond the ransom, the ouster of the President of America by simply tearing him apart.
The Reason:
The President is about to sign an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Gorbechov while the Texan oil Baron Miller and The Russian Koslov plan to take the middle east with growing concern for oil shortage across the West. The President has to be ousted before the treaty is signed and Forsyth comes out with a traumatizing sequence of events for the President.
The Negotiator:
My God, you can’t get a better Negotiator than him, but the entire story takes a twirl when he reaches the final moment of rescuing the Lad and the President’s boy gets smashed and the Kidnappers get away. Forsyth puts the negotiator in the most bizarre state from where the trail starts from Country to Country across Europe without knowing that he is being monitored. This is where he has to survive “to live after having allowed the lad to die” He has to fight the system and get the abductors, a real double edged sword hanging on him
Does he end up saving the President and the calamity and who is behind all this and what happens to the Kidnappers forms the rest of the story.
Forsyth’s Negotiator is a real page tuner in terms of Suspense and Action, Strategy and Intelligence, Turns and twirls, Terror and Tension and he leaves back a devastating effect on you with his pace of narration.
No doubt I call Frederick Forsyth a JACKAL OF WRITING.
Some great ones from this master writer:
• The Day of the jackal
• The Fist of God
• The Odessa File
• The Fourth protocol