BOOK: THE AFGHAN.
AUTHOR: FREDERICK FORSYTH.
NO.OF PAGES: 189.
GENRE: POLITICAL FICTION/INVESTIGATIVE.
(Review by Sammy Frank)
Forsyth writes fast paced novels, convincing and based on current realities in the underworld. In the Afghan, he chronicles a brilliant attempt by the western world to infiltrate the Al-Qaida terror network. The main character is the man simply referred to as the afghan. He is a westerner and makes a daring in to the treacherous world of international terrorism. He succeeds in preventing one of the largest terror missions ever imagined, albeit at the cost of his own life.
The writer as is usual of him has taken a real life event that took place but has necessarily joined dots here and there to tell the story. He takes you from the west to the east and scans every bit of the space between. It is cleverly written in simple English and attractive font.
To readers of other Forsyth novels, a rather clumsy portrayal of the CIA cannot be escaped. One however cannot be too sure whether that also was deliberately done!
Read in a sitting!
©Sammy Frank is the pen name for Samuel Mwangi. He is a Chemistry teacher in Kenya. He is currently (March 2011) a student for Msc. Chemistry at The University of Mysore, India. All rights reserved.
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