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19 reviews for:
The Negotiator: From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
3.71 AVERAGE
19 reviews for:
The Negotiator: From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
3.71 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is dad’s core at its absolute finest. Middle aged coming out of retirement wine drinking military man is our protagonist. He’s smarter than everyone else faster than everyone else Abbas gets together with the tying female agent better than anyone else.
This book is good it pulls together a number of disparate plots into a compelling story however it is long and a number of devices the authors used to keep you on the hook began to annoy me as I got further through the book. His description of travel by the street and road numbers and turns was super dull and the constant hinting at but withholding information from the reader is I’m sure what makes a good thriller but it felt lazy and tiring after a while.
Again a perfect holiday book and not much more but still a compelling read.
I enjoy Frederick Forsyth's books, his description of procedures and events as part of the storytelling appeals to me. I hadn't read anything of his for probably 20 years. This is the first one I have experienced as an audiobook and it was a worthwhile distraction whilst working around the garden here at ReesAcres. Good plot, if a little black and white, good narrator.
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
meh, pretty mediocre
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
I pulled this one from my book store because I was looking for a Cold War era thriller and have not yet read much from Mr Forsyth. I understand that he does an enormous amount of research for his books and that certainly showed here. This was a well-thought out novel and well-structured even though it suffers from amazingly bad publishing timing. It was written in the late 1980s and the traditional Cold War relationship between the US and USSR continues throughout the novel. Of course the author could no more see the incredible events of 1989 (the Wall coming down, the desolution of the Soviet Union, etc.) than the rest of us.
I was a little worried as I read the first several chapters as the author spends a lot of time building the background for the story. We get a lot of back story on numerous characters, including high ranking politicians in both countries as well as businessmen, Senators, etc. but it was unclear just who the POV character would be. It isn't until around page 100 or so that we meet Quinn, the Negotiator himself and the novel settles down into a nice coherent plot. On the surface, the story centers around the kidnapping of the US president's only son but there is so much going on here that it is not at all predictable. Very enjoyable and now, of course, I want to read more from this author, especially his more famous works such as "Day of the Jackal".
I was a little worried as I read the first several chapters as the author spends a lot of time building the background for the story. We get a lot of back story on numerous characters, including high ranking politicians in both countries as well as businessmen, Senators, etc. but it was unclear just who the POV character would be. It isn't until around page 100 or so that we meet Quinn, the Negotiator himself and the novel settles down into a nice coherent plot. On the surface, the story centers around the kidnapping of the US president's only son but there is so much going on here that it is not at all predictable. Very enjoyable and now, of course, I want to read more from this author, especially his more famous works such as "Day of the Jackal".
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The basic premise of this book has completely been overcome by the events in the Middle East during the past 10 years or so (book was written in late 80s), but once you get past that, this is a decent thriller/intrigue. The hero is fairly cool, the bad guys are despicable, and it's fun to compare the people in Washington with the current crop of bozos.