Book description
A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered
in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven
Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Ricky's murderer leads
Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could
bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic
tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of
world terrorism.
From the battlefield of Vietnam via war-torn Serbia to the jungles
of Central America, Avenger is packed with riveting detail,
breathtaking action and political suspense, while in Cal Dexter we
meet an unforgettable hero in the most dynamic Forsyth tradition.
Frederick Forsyth is the author of ten bestselling novels:
The Day
of the Jackal
,
The Odessa File
,
The Dogs of War
,
The Devil's Alternative
,
The Fourth Protocol
,
The Negotiator
,
The Deceiver
,
The Fist of God
,
Icon
and
Avenger
. His other works include
The Biafra Story
,
The Shepherd
, two short story collections,
No Comebacks
and
The Veteran
, and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera,
The Phantom of Manhattan
. He has also collected together an anthology of flying tales,
Great
Flying Stories
, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len
Deighton and H. G. Wells. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
