Frederick McCarthy Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent, England, on August 25, 1938, the son of Frederick William Forsyth and Phyllis Green Forsyth. While at the Tonbridge School in Kent, he was a voracious reader, reading “anything I could get my hands on that had to do with adventure.” He also developed a keen interest in foreign languages, learning French, German, and Spanish as well as some Russian and Italian. He frequently vacationed on the Continent, where he polished his language proficiency. He was also an avoid motorcyclist, bullfighter, and airplane pilot. Forsyth left the military in 1958 to become a journalist, claiming that “it was the only job I could think of that might enable me to write, travel and keep more or less my own hours.” In Avenger, Calvin Dexter is a lawyer in a small New Jersey town, but his experience in stalking Vietcong in booby-trapped tunnels has made him a man to be feared by the cruel and lawless. When his teenage daughter was murdered by a gang leader, Dexter tracked the killer down and executed him, but his grief-haunted wife’s suicide has left him a loner. Years after Vietnam he is hired by a rich Canadian businessman to learn the fate of his idealistic grandson, Ricky Colenso, in Bosnia. What Calvin Dexter, the Avenger, discovers is that Ricky Colenso was murdered brutally by several Serbian thugs led by the monstrous mass killer Zoran Zilic… Just push the play button and enjoy the free online English audiobook “Avenger” on our website!
