The Fox

The fox by Frederick Forsyth…..

Book review

Rating 4/5 (extremely biased warning!!)

Long post warning!!

Spoilers….mild but no amount of spoilers will spoil the mood of reading a Forsyth novel!

So like the wine which gets better with age (so I’ve been told since being a teetotaler I have no personal opinion on this!); Frederick Forsyth has come a long way from the Day of the jackal to Cobra or the Afghan! And his last one The kill List!

Ever since I read my favourite one Called, The Devil’s alternative, I am a big fan of Fred! That novel I had started ten times and could never go beyond fifty pages of the slowest speed and pages filled with dull and boring details! But from the next page it was one of the best rides ever for me reading a spy novel!

So when it comes to spy and agents and double agents and triple agents and the KGB or CIA or MI6; you cannot get better than Fred!

This time the story shifts to UK and cold war and it was like world war 1 and 2 all over again! The last few novels were primarily American and this was a pleasant change!

So finally coming to the novel (spoiler alert!)…. There is this young kid who is having the Asperger’s syndrome but he is the top hacker in the world!
With that kind of power in this digital age you can (major spoiler!) Literally break into security vaults or nuclear power plants or rocket launching rockets and what not!…. Don’t worry if you feel this is a spoiler because unless you read the novel you can never imagine what’s the whole deal is all about!

So you have a cat and mouse game between two veteran agents of UK and Russia. Who wins is anyones guess but trust Fred to give it such nice twists so reminiscent of his Day of the Jackal days!

So if you thought that the cold war and spying networks are old school you cannot be more wrong! All that’s changed is that it’s become more digital and that’s all!

So you have America, Israel, Iran, Russia and hold your breath…. North Korea!….. That’s the icing on the nuclear cake!!…

Fans of Forsyth will not sleep till they finish this one and others will definitely have a good read believe you me!

The ending though is too optimistic which am sure may not happen in real life but hey what’s the point in writing a fiction if you cannot end it the way you want!?…

This is not a Ceausescu story right!!?
This is the second novel (the first was Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus to mention this) to mention this!…read this it you want to know more!..

So pull on your reading socks and read The Fox!!