Book description
Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Secret Intelligence
Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives, a legend in his
own time. The end of the cold war has, however, strengthened the hand
of the Whitehall mandarins, to whom he seems about as controllable as
Genhis Khan, so Sam is to have his fate decided at a special hearing.
As part of the proceedings, four of Sam's key operations are
reviewed: a clandestine mission into East Germany in 1985 to contact
the top Russian spy General Pankratin; the second involving a KGB
colonel who wants to defect - but is he genuine? An audacious
Qaddafi-inspired plot to ship arms to the IRA; and the fourth when
McCready presided over the aftermath of political murder and mayhem in
the Caribbean.
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.
