And he gets his chance as the security chief and military leader of the almost certain future leader of Russia. It is the story of a Russian security officer involved in the arresting a lot of the assets and really interested in capturing Monk one day to make him pay for the actions against the great Soviet empire. The stupidity and gross oversight of the responsible people burns a whole network of agents inside of Russian. It is also the story of Jason Monk a former spy whose assets were betrayed by the Agency he required them for. Only this time it is an engineered change from the outside of Russia. This sets up a chain of events that will change the fate of Russia once more. And by sheer accident it lands into the hands of a former soldier who cleans the headquarters of this man.
It was later made into a film of the same name.Ī destabilised Russia with an up and coming popular politician, the Icon from the title, who is bound to become the next ruler and willing to take Russia into the next century and clean up its internal mess and reshape it into a great country it was once.Įxcept for a small matter namely the man is mad as Hitler and his thoughts and ideas, full of ethnic cleansing are all written into an account called the Black manifesto. His first full length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971 and became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Returning to Biafra as a freelance reporter, Forsyth wrote his first book, The Biafra Story in 1969.įorsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. He left the BBC in 1968 after controversy arose over his alleged bias towards the Biafran cause and accusations that he falsified segments of his reports. From July to September 1967, he served as a correspondent covering the Nigerian Civil War between the region of Biafra and Nigeria. Becoming a journalist, he joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent. He became one of the youngest pilots in the Royal Air Force at 19, where he served on National Service from 1956 to 1958.
The son of a furrier, he was born in Ashford, Kent, educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, and recently The Cobra and The Kill List. Frederick Forsyth, CBE is an English author and occasional political commentator.
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