Frederick Forsyth is the author of ten bestselling novels: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God, Icon and Avenger. His other works include The Biafra Story, The Shepherd, two short story collections, No Comebacks and The Veteran, and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of Manhattan. He has also collected together an anthology of flying tales, Great Flying Stories, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len Deighton and H.G. Wells. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
Just before the Gulf War, a London academic hears a brief radio intercept which mentions a fearsome new weapon called Qubth-ut-Allah: the Fist of God. SAS agent Mike Martin is sent on a mission to extract information from an Iraqi spy. What he learns causes the Allies to delay their invasion until Martin can find and destroy the Fist of God. With well researched realism Forsyth pulls off an impressive what-really-happened thriller. (Kirkus UK)