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Frederick Forsyth - Icon 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: Icon
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Read By: Ted Stoddard
Copyright: 1995
Audiobook Copyright: 1998
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Books on Tape
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Tape
Source: Download
Condition: OK
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 15
Total Duration: 17:26:30
Total MP3 Size: 239.64
Parity Archive: No
Ripped With: Cooledit
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 32 kbit/s 16000 Hz Mono
Normalize: Audition 2.0 100%
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
While for sheer reading excitement Forsyth has yet to top his fiction
debut, Day of the Jackal, published a quarter century ago, his later
novels (The Fist of God, etc.) display a mature mastery of storytelling
melded with a deep knowledge of realpolitik. Here, contemporary Russian
crypto-fascists prove every bit as villainous as their Communist predecessors
whom Forsyth portrayed in The Fourth Protocol and The Deceiver. It's
1999, and ultra-nationalist Igor Komarov's victory in the upcoming Russian
presidential election seems assured. But within Komarov's party headquarters,
an elderly janitor accidentally discovers Komarov's secret plans for
Russia, laid out in a document that comes to be known as the Black Manifesto?a
blueprint for a return to dictatorship, military expansionism and genocidal
ethnic cleansing. The manifesto soon comes to the attention of British
intelligence, but both they and the CIA are restrained by their governments
from taking official action. So with the backing of an organization
of international VIPs, former British Secret Service chief Sir Nigel
Irvine mounts his own covert operation to subvert Komarov. Ex-CIA operative
Jason Monk, who once ran highly placed agents in the Soviet Union, will
be Irvine's point man. As usual, Forsyth interweaves speculation with
historical fact, stitching his plot pieces with a cogent analysis of
both Russian politics and the world of espionage?particularly the legacy
of the real-life Aldrich Ames, a Soviet mole who tunneled deep into
the CIA. Shifting back and forth in time and space among a large cast
of characters, Forsyth expertly builds suspense toward a climactic New
Year's Eve skirmish in Moscow. It's another strong performance by a
writer who knows exactly what he's about, and who here catalyzes narrative
with another memorable protagonist, the stealthy and daring Monk.
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