Frederick Forsyth's THE FIST OF GOD (Bantam) is a disappointment, coming from the author of such classics as THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE DOGS OF WAR, and THE NEGOTIATOR. I had high expectations for this book, which has a good setting--"behind the scenes" in the Allied-Iraqi war of 1991--and an interesting plot involving the possible use of weapons of mass destruction in that war. But it is a tired book. The protagonist is too much of a wish fulfillment fantasy of what it's like to be a glamorous SAS man, and the "inside story" of Desert Storm does not have much to offer to anyone with any familiarity with military affairs. Such readers would be better off reading Norman Schwarzkopf's IT DOESN'T TAKE A HERO, also from Bantam.
Editor's Recommendations, Summer 1996In this inaugural edition of IBIC's Featured Books, I'd like to draw your attention to several titles which have helped to shape my life and thinking.
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