Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
A First Time Reader Who Says "Get A Grip!"
Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has
a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon
training. But Dexter is no ordinary man.
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The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to
volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never
heard from again. A family grieves and is offered little hope--in the fog of
that horrible time and place, the killer, too, has vanished.
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Or so it would seem. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong,
there are few like Cal Dexter who can settle the score. And so, years later,
a worldwide chase is on and Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer.
But this time CIA agent Paul Devereux must find a way to stop Dexter
before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos.
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A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-
cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyths
page-turning trademarks.
Features:
`Avenger' by thriller veteran Frederick Forsyth is everything a thriller should
be with scintillating entertainment, historical information and astonishing
twists. Forsyth introduces us to the nationalistic Cal Dexter and develop s
his character expertly skipping no details in the exposition on how he
recruits himself for the army and develops his skills by joining the elite
Tunnel Rats squadron while operating in Vietnam. After the Vietnam War,
Dexter returns to his sovereign America and uses his military credibility to
get a degree and eventually land a job as a small time attorney in the
Bronx. Dexter later marries, but his family is hit with tragedy after tragedy,
from the rape and murder of his young daughter to the suicide of his wife,
devastated he becomes a dogged mercenary devoted to bringing foreign
criminals to justice.
Forsyth writes an inimitably layered plot by concurrently involving us with
the story of a compassionate young man Ricky Colenso who decides
travel to war torn Bosnia as an aid worker to facilitate the dejected citizens
who are brutally murdered in their thousands by the callous Milosevic
regime. He is later viciously killed along with a whole village and discarded
into a cesspit by the Machiavellian, vindictive Serbian war lord, drug dealer
and weapons trader Zoran Zilic who utilises his ruthless army to commit
terrible atrocities. Unknown to the vile Zilic and his band wagon of
psychotic paramilitaries posing as patriots is that Ricky's grandfather
Stephen Edmond is a wealthy business man who can afford the best
revenge. Edmond later summons the services of `The Avenger' (Cal
Dexter) to bring Zilic, who fleas with a small fortune to the fictional
Republic of San Martin after the fall of Milosevic, to American justice.
To further obscure matters, the leader of an elite section of the CIA,
dedicated patriot Paul Devereaux III recruits Zilic to eavesdrop on a
weapons deal with a new terrorist Usama Bin Laden who poses a much
larger threat to American lives. In doing so, Devereax needs to keep Zilic
alive and when he hears of the Avenger's pursuit to capture Zilic, he is
determined to stop him.
Dexter's extensive preparation and investigation along with almost
symphonic implemntation and execution of plans ar e a pleasure to read
and will ensure that anyone who finds enjoyment in the thriller genre will be
hooked. Forsyth also provides plenty of history for the reader to enjoy to
truly understand the Serbian Bosnian conflict and captures the
surroundings and settings beautifully from the mountains of Serbia to the
buildings of New York. Forsyth also doesn't fail to impress with his
rigorous, scrupulous research of laws, countries and history, he builds the
tension steadily and allows the novel to culminate in an unforgettable
ending and a remarkable twist that will have you gasping for air.
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