Author:Frederick Forsyth
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.
'Forsyth in top form... the master storyteller has lost none of his touch'
—— Daily MailGleeful, sneaky fun
—— Janet Maslin , New York TimesFascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book
—— Sarah Broadhurst , BooksellerA page-turner of a mystery
—— Waterstones' QuarterlyNeat, clever and loads and loads of fun
—— Daily SportMuch to enjoy..the solution in the final pages is particularly cunning
—— TelegraphSwarup has a redeeming eye for the disparites that define Indian society
—— GuardianA Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in. Its stock characters are easily identified: the Bureaucrat, the Actress, the Tribal, the Thief, the Politician and the American. Each attended the party at which a man named Vicky Rai, a playboy film producer, was murdered. Each has a gun and a motive. And although the story's geographical span is even bigger than India, the whole thing feels handily confined to the kind of isolated, air-tight setting that Agatha Christie's readers love.Thanks to such a schematic setup "Six Suspects" is gleeful, sneaky fun. But it's also a much more freewheeling book than the format implies. Mr. Swarup, an Indian diplomat, brings a worldly range of attributes to his potentially simple story. And he winds up delivering a rambling critique of Indian culture, taking shots at everything from racism to reality TV. Yet Mr. Swarup's style stays light and playful, preferring to err on the side of broad high jinks rather than high seriousness...A refreshing oddity. It bears no resemblance to the cookie-cutter genre books of this season
—— Janet Maslin , New York TimesA teeming, beguiling Indian panorama wrapped in a clever whodunit.
—— Kirkus ReviewsA blockbuster of a story that begins with a murder, then delves into the lives and motives of the six suspects. The reader becomes intimately involved with each suspect while being treated to an eye-opening account of life in India (4 1/2 stars)
—— Romantic Times Book Reviews USEssentially a stunning exploration of the darkest parts of the human psyche, one which will haunt the reader
—— Socialist ReviewThere is no doubt that Crime is a page-turner
—— New StatesmanReacher fans will love it - it's all storming compounds, breaking hearts and not bothering to take names, taking justice into his own hands and to hell with the wos'name... a solid inter-Bond-film substitute
—— Maxim
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