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A review by shreyas1599
Četvrti protokol by Frederick Forsyth
5.0
Another top notch spy thriller. It had all the usual elements of a Forsyth novel that I have come to admire:
1. Lots of back and forth between settings (in this case, between Russia and London)
2. Detail oriented in every aspect. Almost reads like an investigative report. I have never seen any real police investigative reports but I imagine the level of detail that the book goes into is on a similar scale.
3. Starting off the story on a completely unrelated character and then proceeding with the crux.
4. Every character who has some significance, no matter how minor it turns out to be is accorded a brief character sketch prior to playing his role in the story.
5. The tiniest of slip-ups (which in the end turned out to not be a slip-up) causing the whole story to blow wide open
I also enjoyed the unofficial arrangement between the two spymasters across the divide.
It starts out a bit slow, as usual, to introduce the several moving parts of the story and then starts picking up pace exponentially. All the hallmarks of a good spy thriller.
1. Lots of back and forth between settings (in this case, between Russia and London)
2. Detail oriented in every aspect. Almost reads like an investigative report. I have never seen any real police investigative reports but I imagine the level of detail that the book goes into is on a similar scale.
3. Starting off the story on a completely unrelated character and then proceeding with the crux.
4. Every character who has some significance, no matter how minor it turns out to be is accorded a brief character sketch prior to playing his role in the story.
5. The tiniest of slip-ups (which in the end turned out to not be a slip-up) causing the whole story to blow wide open
I also enjoyed the unofficial arrangement between the two spymasters across the divide.
It starts out a bit slow, as usual, to introduce the several moving parts of the story and then starts picking up pace exponentially. All the hallmarks of a good spy thriller.