Word: forsyth
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...Bunny and McCool's, mobile purveyors of ice cream, keep damaging his car to register displeasure at his peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that is to say awful, Yuletide season, and Comfort and Joy is a fairly typical, that is to say wonderful, Bill Forsyth comedy. As Gregory's Girl and Local Hero showed, he is a director whose best shots are sidelong glances, a writer whose best lines are murmured asides. In Bill Paterson, who plays Bird, Forsyth has the perfect spokesman for his dismayed, determined reasonableness. What he has again created...
...Fourth Protocol, Forsyth...
...Fourth Protocol, Forsyth (1 last week...
...cardboard hero should not be fatal in the reality-avoidance game. The reader is willing to spend a couple of evenings in Preston's numbing company if doing so will let him put off thinking about that oral surgery or those dunning letters from school. What overstrains Forsyth's vehicle to the point of collapse, when other thrillers no less dim clatter on dependably to their conclusions, may be that the author has weighty ideological points to make. His first intention is not to write an entertainment but to preach a political sermon. Its burden is that leftists...
...Came in from the Cold and his later novels, Le Carré gave the spy thriller all the ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle, namely the message that espionage is a dirty business whose dirt is fairly evenly distributed on both sides. Forsyth was darkly entertaining in The Day of the Jackal, but his new book is tract writing, and its tendentious guff leaves the reader where he started, unwilling to believe and unable to escape. -By John Skow