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Title	:	The Fourth Protocol
Author	:	Frederick Forsyth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 443 pages
Published	:	1996 by Arrow Books (first published August 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage

The Fourth Protocol Paperback | Pages: 443 pages

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Professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents. Although one of the most notorious thieves in London, he is enough of a patriot to anonymously send the documents to MI5 so that they might locate the traitor. In Moscow, British defector Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the Soviet General Secretary stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the United Kingdom (scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months), the "hard left" of the party will oust the moderate populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from the United Kingdom and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of NATO. In conjunction with a GRU general, an academic named Krilov, and a master strategist, Philby devises "Plan Aurora" to ensure a Labour victory by exploiting the party's support for unilateral disarmament - although it is noted that the strategist, a nuclear physicist and chess Grand Master, has come up with most of the plan's strategy.

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ISBN:	0099642611 (ISBN13: 9780099642619)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Harold Philby, John Preston, Jim Rawlings, George Berenson, Jan Marais, Sir Nigel Irvine
Setting:	Moscow, USSR,1986 London, England,1987(United Kingdom)

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as with other FF novels, the research hangs very heavily here. The plot is well conceived and subtle enough. However, Forsyth's own politics and prejudice do leave a slightly disturbing smell.

The problem lies with me not with the book. I just don't enjoy the British spy genre anymore.All I would say is that The Rolling Stones wrote all their great songs in the sixties and are still writing today. I think Freddie wrote his great works a long time ago now: Day of the Jackal, Dogs of War, Odessa File. Maybe he should only perform those works when he appears at Glastonbury.

Simply fantastic - I had been recommended this book and finally got round to reading it and I wished I hadn't waited that long (Sorry Dan!). Frederick Forsyth has such a great style of writing with such attention to detail that you can visualise the scenes in your head and are almost there in the room with the characters. Thoroughly enjoyable!

2.5 stars. This book was very slow getting started, and had long boring narratives on British politics. I listened to the audiobook, and didn't even bother pausing it when I temporarily left the room, because I knew I wouldn't miss anything interesting. In fact, if it hadn't been for all the good reviews here, I would have bailed, which I almost never do. The story finally kicked into gear about 2/3 of the way through the book -- way too late.

One of the best spy books around.Two years after I jotted this one sentence, I should elaborate more.The book can also be called: how to assemble a nuclear weapon in 13 easy steps. Combine that with some solid, classic 80s Cold War era spy tactics and half a dozen sub-plots converging toward a decidedly gray-day industrial-era English brick house standoff, and you get yourself an excellent thriller. The best part is, it's visual. You are reading this book and you see it like a film unfolding

This is Forsythe's most successful book about the Cold War. His research into the inner workings of the Soviet goverment was so astonishingly detailed and accurate that he came under the attention of the CIA! This book included several of the most intriguing and fully developed characters that Forsythe ever created. A terrific read which was regrettably made into a movie that managed to leave out all of the romance and subtlety of the book and dull the edges of the story. Forget about the film,

CT review September 2018Excellent from the start to finish, Mr F. always has understood how to cultivate the tapeworm of the story.Negative? A few informative but rather boring passages that add only to show a bit of savoir faire... e. g. all the detail on the bomb making.Otherwise would recommend highly.