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Una novela de Frederick Forsyth tan potente como Chacal. Las instrucciones del presidente son: Identificar, localizar, destruir. En el norte de Virginia se encuentra la sede de la TOSA, una unidad gubernamental de actividades de soporte para operaciones tecnicas. Pero su verdadera y unica mision es identificar, localizar y destruir a quienes representan una amenaza para Estados Unidos. Sus nombres se apuntan en una lista aprobada por el presidente conocida como la lista de asesinables. Ahora figura un nombre nuevo: el Predicador. Nadie conoce su identidad. Solo se sabe que es el responsable de diecisiete asesinatos y que utiliza internet para radicalizar a jovenes musulmanes. Pero acaba de cometer un gran error: su ultima victima es un general jubilado de los marines y el padre del Rastreador, miembro destacado de la TOSA. Con un dominio perfecto del arabe, el Rastreador lleva seis años dedicado a eliminar a los altos mandos de Al Qaeda. Esta vez, su mision es personal. Empieza la caza.La critica ha dicho...Forsyth tiene un don para crear argumentos de thriller creibles.Entertainment Weekly Nadie escribe tanbien acerca del mundo real como Forsyth, y La lista supera sus estandares, que normalmente ya son altos.Booklist Algunos autores de thrillers de espionaje ya saben mucho antes de sentarse a escribir, pero el rey de todos ellos es Frederick Forsyth.The Washington Times

The Kill List: a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the worlds security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this mans identity, locate him and take him out.

Una obra de intriga en la que no falta ninguno de los elementos del género.

Nueva edición del clásico policíaco. Piloto de motocicletas, aspirante a torero en Málaga y aviador de la RAF a los diecisiete años, Frederick Forsyth ingresó muy joven en el periodismo. Enviado por la agencia Reuter a cubrir los viajes del general De Gau

Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace--and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear destruction. Yet every way out means certain death. and the countdown has already begun.

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal. " "The Day Of The Jackal" makes such comparable books that "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" seems like Hardy Boy mysteries." -- "The New York Times"

The Kill List - The names of those men and women who would threaten the world's security - held above top secret at the highest level of the US government. The Preacher - At the top of it, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out. The Tracker - Ex-US marine, now one of America's most effective terrorist hunters, with an impossible job. Aided only by a brilliant teenaged hacker, he must throw out the bait and see whether his deadly target can be drawn from his lair.

To the very few officials who ever saw the package of documents which arrived anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn in 1964, the list of names therein became known as 'The Odessa File'. What is Odessa? In German:Organisation Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehorigen. In English:Organisation of Former Members of the SS Peter Miller, a newspaperman, vows to hunt down and expose the SS killers living in Germany under the Odessa's protection. This is the gripping story of that search. 'Yesterday's headlines underpin the plot. The total effect is stunning' GUARDIAN