Frederick Forsyth

The US and UK intelligence services suspect a major Al Qaeda operation is being planned, but how can they get more information? Would it be possible to infiltrate Al Qaeda? Could a westerner pass as an Arab? This is what Iraqi born Mike martin attempts to do!

When an American aid worker is brutally murdered in Serbia his grandfather, Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on justice and revenge. He employs Cal Dexter, ex-Special Forces, to track down the killer. But Cal's investigations lead him into the world of international terrorism.

The Jackal is an anonymous Englishman, hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, to assassinate General de Gaulle in 1963.

Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives,but the end of the cold war means his fate is to be decided at a special hearing before a panel of Whitehall mandarins.

A discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro which could change the course of a nation's history forever. Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find; he hires an army of mercenaries and sets out to topple the government and replace its dictator with a puppet president. But news of the discovery has reached Russia - and suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game. A game in which win or lose means life or death.

Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass as an Arab, is sent into Kuwait to help the resistance and assess Iraqi strength. He is parachuted into the mountains on the most dangerous mission he has ever undertaken: to find and destroy Qubth-ut-Allah, the Fist of God.

Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world is a 17-year-old boy with a brilliant mind, who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe, who can manipulate that weaponry and turn it against the superpowers themselves? Whatever happens he must not fall into the wrong hands. Because what follows after that is unthinkable…

In Germany Peter Miller, a journalist, is given the diary of an elderly Jewish man. In it he reads about wartime atrocities and realises that many Nazi criminals are being protected by an organisation called Odessa. Miller sets about bringing these people to justice and in doing so risks his own life.

Five shorter stories from a master story-teller all based on the premise that revenge is a dish best eaten cold!