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The outsider : my life in intrigue / Frederick Forsyth.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection PR6056.O699 Z46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-2025.
- Forsyth, Frederick.
- Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, black and white, color ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.
- Summary:
- He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war; the Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him. And that's just for starters. Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue for over forty years-- but what most people don't know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life.
- Contents:
- Whispered words
- A large jar of talc
- A little boy's dream
- Learning French
- Learning German
- Back to Germany
- Languages
- A step nearer to the stars
- A long hike
- A silly revenge
- A gentleman of Clare
- Learning Spanish
- Tangier and commandos
- Leopard-skin solution
- I'm Jesus Christ
- Vampire
- King's Lynn
- Fleet Street
- Paris aflame
- Big brother
- The death of Kennedy
- Helping out the cousins
- Outbreak of war
- Headlights
- Beer with a camp guard
- A very unwise choice
- A mistake with Auntie
- A day with the Arrows
- A taste of Africa
- End of career
- Farewell, Auntie
- Living history
- Eilat
- Jerusalem
- Confession
- Of mice and moles
- A media explosion
- A useful certificate
- Mr. Sissons, I presume
- Worth a large one
- Bits of metal
- Of more mice
- and mercs
- Memories
- Flight out
- An unwanted manuscript
- The ODESSA
- Dogs of war
- An unusual dinner
- Perfect joy
- Friends and opponents
- Five years in Ireland
- A neat trick
- The amazing Mr. Moon
- Back to zero
- start again
- The passing of Humpy
- A very burning question
- From Maiko to monks
- A very untidy coup
- Peace Hotel and tracers
- Dream come true.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780399176074 : HRD
- 0399176071 : HRD
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