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Saturday, 11 April 2026

The Fist of God

 




By Frederick Forsyth
5 Stars
Action/Adventure/Suspense
Adult

I would have to consider myself a fan of Frederick Forsyth. This is the sixth of his novels that I have read, and I haven’t been disappointed in any way in any of them.

The book is set during the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, Desert Shield, and the beginning of Desert Storm. The premise of the book is that Saddam Hussein has built a Weapon of Mass Destruction that Iraq has code-named The Fist of God. It is a top-secret program that almost managed to escape the Allies' attention. There is a race against time to identify, locate, and destroy the threat. The consequences are enormous.

Through most of the book, Major Mike Martin of the SAS does the heavy lifting. He is borrowed by the intelligence people to work inside first Kuwait, then Iraq. The allies have a wild-card-type spy on the inside. They don’t actually know who he is, and neither do we. There is a twist at the end of the story that completely blindsided me.

Great book, highly recommended.

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