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3.0 out of 5 stars This Could have happened....?, Jan 17 2009

By	Pol Sixe "hpolvi" (Thornhill, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Avenger: Vengence is a Personal War (Mass Market Paperback)

Long involved backstories, taking up to half the book, written in Forsythe's historical "fact" method set up a fairly quick, and improbable, snatch and grab story. An "Avenger" takes on private commissions to bring bad guys to the reach of American justice. The bad guy here is a nasty Serb warlord type who had killed a young American citizen, but as a character in the story the role is very limited. Written post-Sep 01, the tale also involves a "what if" CIA plan to get bin Laden before 9/11. Anyways, not a great book but a good weekend/airplane/beach read. And a Canuck angle too!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Notes for a Novel, May 29 2005

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This review is from: Avenger: Vengence is a Personal War (Mass Market Paperback)

This book seems more like a study for a novel than the real thing. 150 pages in and you are still meeting one dimensional characters. Only the last two or three chapters show FF at his best. Pity that the editor and publisher didn't put him through a couple more drafts. This might have been a novel/

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3.0 out of 5 stars A mild recommendation, Jul 13 2004

By	Larry Gandle (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Avenger (Hardcover)

There is no better suspense thriller than THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. It is the prototypical novel that spawned many imitators with few equals. THE ODESSA FILE was another huge success for Frederick Forsyth. However, in spite of writing other fine books, he has never met with the success of the these two books that are decades old. Perhaps the reason for that is the very style of his writing. There is much historical detail in these books. In fact, the historical details go on for pages and can actually read like a history textbook. Personally I remember using passages from THE ODESSA FILE while writing a report on the holocaust in high school. I properly footnoted the reference but the teacher took me to task explaining that novels should not be used as a source of historical research. This is quite evident in his latest book entitled AVENGER.
Cal Dexter is a Vietnam Vet who volunteered as a tunnel rat while stationed in Vietnam. His job was to help clean out the vast networks of tunnels used by the Vietcong. This required a certain personality able to withstand living on the extreme edge with danger literally around every corner. One had to be persistent and extremely cautious to survive. Traits that would be ideal for a tracker of missing persons. Cal later went on to become an attorney in New Jersey who secretly takes on jobs requiring him to track individuals and possibly assassinate them. He is now hired by a Canadian billionaire to locate his son who disappeared in Serbia. First he must locate the body then find the person responsible for his death. This man is a terrorist involved in producing a nuclear bomb. Cal must not only capture this highly guarded man but bring him back alive. One of his unexpected adversaries is the CIA who wants the man free to help them locate Bin Laden.
The long historical passages, while mostly quite interesting (including extensive descriptions of the tunnel rats), are mostly superfluous to the story and serve to slow down the extensive plot. Therefore it overall fails as a thriller in that the momentum so crucial to this style of book is stopped dead in its tracks again and again. Characters are fairly well sketched and the locale a bit too well described. A very mild recommendation.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This cannot be Forsyth
Very disappointing novel that has nothing to do with Forsyth's previous work. The intricate plots of Dogs of War and Day of the Jackal give me the impression that this story was... Read more

Published on Jul 19 2004 by Folkert Schram de Jong

5.0 out of 5 stars One of The best
Even the venerable Tom Clancy, during a PBS interview, called Forsyth "the best in the business." The other reviews will tell you what this book is about. Read more

Published on Jul 11 2004 by Colby Jordan

3.0 out of 5 stars a wordy and messy novel
too much blahblahblah. every name brought on forsyth got the habit to blah out a unnecessarily long personal history and curriculum vitae. Read more

Published on Jul 2 2004 by justareader

3.0 out of 5 stars Not like his previous style
I founded this book to be slightly different than the previous ones I had read from the same author. The first part is boring and slow, the second part is better. Read more

Published on Jun 22 2004