Book description
A collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer.
A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a
young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and
culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy; a drug smuggling
heist on an international flight where the Knock pit their wits
against the smugglers; a brural urban murder, where a brilliant QC
decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling justice; an
incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and a
brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of the Old
Masters - each story is a remarkable tour de force.
And above all here is a brilliant novella, 'Whispering Wind', which
begins with the single survivor of Custer's Last Stand at the battle
of Little Big Horn. Then follows the rescue from rape and murder of a
Cheyenne girl and a flight across the mountains and forests of the
West, ending in a savage present-day manhunt in the wild lands of Montana.
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.
