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Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
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Avenger (original 2003; edition 2004)

by Frederick Forsyth

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Living a secret double life, lawyer Cal Dexter embarks on a deadly quest for vengeance that threatens global security, prompting CIA agent Kevin McBride to race against the clock to stop him.
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Title:Avenger
Authors:Frederick Forsyth
Info:St. Martin's Paperbacks (2004), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Collections:Read but unowned
Rating:****1/2
Tags:2014

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First edition very fine
  dgmathis | Mar 15, 2023 |
From Viet Nam to Serbia/Bosnia to Caribbean stronghold of Bosnian criminal - excellent. ( )
  fwbl | Aug 29, 2022 |
I really liked this one. Hard to find a bad book by this master. ( )
  ikeman100 | Jun 11, 2022 |
Reminiscent of The Day of the Jackal and just as enjoyable. The tale of the Tunnel Rats was particularly chilling. ( )
  charlie68 | Jul 28, 2020 |
Cover blurb is just about right: " A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks."
The murder and avenging violence is rather gruesome.
Written in 2003, the plot uses the in-the-fictional-future events of 9/11/2001 for some of its intrigue.
I don't know if his spycraft works in real life, but it is plausible in print, especially the cyber-scams (p. 228-29).
What I like most about his novels are the historical and political insights that didn't always make it into the media, or that I seem to have missed, plus the things I remember all too well.
Typical of the former
p. 119: [Yugoslavia under Tito was essentially (he misuses "virtually" the same as everyone else these days) crime-free, despite the past history of gangsterism in the original six countries] "The reason was that, post 1948, the Yugoslav government established a compact with the Yugoslav underworld. The deal was simple: You can do whatever you like, and we will turn a blind eye under one condition -- you do it abroad."

And of the latter:
p. 245: (an old British spymaster speaking to an American diplomat) "My dear boy, if you were weak, you would not be hated. If you were poor, you would not be hated. You are not hated despite the trillion dollars [in aid]; you are hated because of the trillion dollars." …"The hatred of your country is not because it attacks theirs; it is because I keeps theirs safe. Never seek popularity. You can have supremacy or be loved but never both. … No many can ever forgive his protector."

p. 273: [on terrorists of all kinds] "They possessed a fearsome capacity for hatred. This was the genetic "given." The hatred came first; the target could come later and usually did. The motive also came second to the capacity to hate...But the hatred came first, then the cause, then the target.

Our nominally good guy had a callous disregard for the safety of his hired pilot. Our nominal traitor: had no one else ever seen his tattoo?
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  librisissimo | Sep 16, 2019 |
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Pas toen ze de Amerikaanse jongen voor de zevende keer in de vloeibare uitwerpselen van de beerput hadden geduwd, verzette hij zich niet meer en stierf hij met al zijn lichaamsopeningen vol derrie.
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