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Icon is a thriller novel by British author Frederick Forsyth. Its plot centres on the politics of the Russian Federation in 1999, with an extremist party close to seizing power. Published by Bantam Press in September 1997, (ISBN 978-0-553-57460-9), Icon became a New York Times Bestseller and was adapted into a television film.
Icon (or Frederick Forsyth's Icon) is a 2005 made-for-television thriller film directed by Charles Martin Smith and very loosely based on the 1997 novel by Frederick Forsyth. The film premiered on Hallmark Channel May 30, 2005. It is set in the period 1985 to 1999.
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth [a] CBE (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal , The Odessa File , The Fourth Protocol , The Dogs of War , The Devil's Alternative , The Fist of God , Icon , The Veteran , Avenger , The Afghan , The Cobra and The Kill List .
No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by English writer Frederick Forsyth.Each story takes place in a different setting and ends with a plot twist. Several of them involve a central male character without any apparent strength who is put under pressure, but who does not g
Cut Collective was founded in 2006. Its members have been commissioned to make public murals, and have exhibited at the Dowse Art Museum, Auckland Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Many female artists have gained recognition for their work, including Diva, Misery (Tanja Thompson), Flox (Hayley King), Erin Forsyth, Ikon and Mica Still ...
Christopher Petit reckoned Forsyth was a relic of bygone times, calling it "polished and moribund as a joke at an after-dinner speech, with a ponderous twist, a punchline and a little moral to tie it all up". [7] The BBC was mixed, stating that "This collection is tautly written and practically boasts of the deep level of research that ...
The Fist of God is a 1994 suspense novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, with a fictitious retelling of the Iraqi Project Babylon and the resulting "supergun". Featuring a story set during the Persian Gulf War , the novel details an Allied effort to find the suspected Iraqi nuclear weapon .
The Devil's Alternative is a novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979. It was his fourth full-length novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story in the near-future (in 1982) rather than in the recent past. The work evolved from an unfilmed screenplay entitled No Alternative.