Frederick Forsyth : Icon

I randomly picked this novel as my first novel from Frederick Forsyth's Stable.
Believe me I was totally gripped by the novel. Not for a second did i feel this was a fiction writing. It sounded so realistic that I felt as if the events have actually been narrated as is.

Frederick has a great nak of story telling.
I searched for a small writing about the novel and found the following excerpt from the website: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/edition/?isbn=0593028015

I quote:
It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.

For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last--not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land.

Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn? A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure Mein Kampf in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic.
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The novel was written in 1996 about Russia in 1999. So this is a pure work of fiction.


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