The Veteran

The Veteran

by Frederick Forsyth
The Veteran

The Veteran

by Frederick Forsyth

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Overview

Frederick Forsyth, The Master Storyteller, Presents Five Brilliantly Ingenious Tales of Murder, Justice, Intrigue and Revenge

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 are only one step ahead of the smugglers; a ruthless urban murder, where a brilliant QC decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling act of justice; an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of 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. It follows the defense 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.

Whether his theme is international espionage, miraculous events in war-torn Italy or a Customs drug bust, the stories in The Veteran all share Forsyth's trademark for compulsive storytelling, his clinical eye for authentic detail and an unnerving sense of suspense.

Not since his New York Times bestselling story collection No Comebacks has he crafted such remarkable work.

Five breathtaking tales from the greatest storyteller of them all.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781466863057
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/26/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 353
Sales rank: 223,935
File size: 560 KB

About the Author

About The Author

Frederick Forsyth is the author of eleven bestselling novels, including The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.

Table of Contents

The Veteran9
The Art Of The Matter87
The Miracle157
The Citizen191
Whispering Wind227

Interviews

Q&A with Frederick Forsyth

Barnes & Noble.com: Before venturing into electronic publishing, you worked in a great variety of narrative forms: full-length novels, short stories (No Comebacks), novellas (The Shepherd), even book length non-fiction (The Biafra Story). Do you have a preference for any of these forms, or are you equally at home in all of them?

Frederick Forsyth: Basically I hope I am at home in all these media. Essentially I am a teller of stories. Each story has a natural telling length - not too sparse, not too much padding. If you have a story in your mind that will simply not sustain a full-length novel, you have to find another, shorter, format. I believe the short story (about 30 to 100 pages of typescript) and the novella (about 100-200 pages) to be much over-looked and disregarded art forms. Some of the most riveting classics, by Kipling, O. Henry, Saki and Mauham, have been in these forms. Because they are 'manageable' in a one-exercise purchase-and-consumption form. I believe they may be revived by the Internet.

B&N.com: You're best known, of course, as a writer of thrillers, but you've also produced the occasional change of pace, such as The Shepherd, a Christmas story, and The Phantom of Manhattan, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. How has your core audience responded to these changes in direction?

FF: Broadly speaking, yes. I have never really known who precisely buys and reads my work, but the sales figures of the non-thrillers bear up well, so I think the occasional change of pace, style, theme and length cannot disappoint the core audience too much, or it would show.

B&N.com: Although you've written many successful books, you're probably still best known for your debut novel, The Day of the Jackal, which has been perennially popular and enormously influential. Do you find it at all frustrating that so many readers still associate you with this particular book?

FF: Not at all. Most writers are essentially known for one work more than any other. It may be the first, not necessarily. But certainly if people recall that first, thirty-year-old book most of all, I am damned grateful. Better than no one ever read a word I wrote!

B&N.com: Do you yourself think you've written better novels in the years since Jackal appeared? Do you have any particular favorites?

FF: My favourite is actually The Fist of God. It was, of all, the most factual, and the most revelatory. Written just after the Gulf War, I took a chance and gambled on revealing a host of details that I believed had been witheld from the public while the war was on. Later, most of these revelations were confirmed as true.

B&N.com: A number of your novels (Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Fourth Protocol) have been successfully filmed. Which of these films most accurately reflected your own original intentions?

FF: No doubt, Day of the Jackal. It was directed by that master film maker, Fred Zinnemann, he of High Noon and A Man for All Seasons. I thought he did a superb job on it.

B&N.com: Now that your initial e-book venture is behind you, do you have any plans for future novels or stories, either in electronic or traditional print format?

FF: Not yet. I am a bit of a one-thing-at-a-time man. There are a number of vague ideas in my head, but I am not ready to tell them yet. First will come the choice of subject and format, then the research, then the writing. Give me a moment to draw breath!

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