Frederick Forsyth is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List. He has packed a tremendous amount of action into his life and frequently drawn on his experiences to lend verisimilitude to his fiction. At the age of 19, he became the youngest pilot in the Royal Air Force but then decided to follow a journalistic career. After three years as a provincial reporter, he joined Reuters and spent the next four years in Europe. He was Awarded the CBE in 1997. He also won the Cartier Diamond Dagger award by the Crime Writers Association in recognition of his body of work. The Fist of God is effectively a retelling of the Gulf War, starting a little before Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, following the creation of the anti-Saddam coalition at the United Nations and then the deployment of the vast numbers of mainly American military men and material at the frontier between occupied Kuwait and neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Forsyth is enamoured of the men, machines, the hardware, planes and tanks, the radar and missile launchers, the regiments and divisions, the pilots, planners, generals and strategists involved in this colossal effort. Reading this book is much more like reading a factual book called ‘Weapons of the Gulf War’ than a novel. Listen online to free English audiobook "The Fist of God” on our website to experience Frederick Forsyth's work.
