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CHAPTERS OF The Devil's Alternative end with a short sentence in a haunting passive voice. "Lunches were ill-digested," goes one, and your's may not sit quietly in the stomach either after finishing Frederick Forsyth's latest and alarmingly timely new novel...
...President Carter doesn't have enough trouble already, he may soon be accused of orchestrating events to conform to the plot of Forsyth's book. The action that sets off the universe-threatening troubles in Alternative is an American embargo on grain sales similar to the one Carter ordered last Friday. If we're in for a two weeks anything like that which President William Matthew's nation edures, better look into buying real estate in a remote area--like Venus...
...similarity to contemporary politics, Forsyth has not written a great book, nor as good as his first novel, The Day of the Jackal. Forsyth crafts plots, and he does so better than virtually any other thriller-writer around. Plots need people, however, and that is where the troubles start...
...encounter with the Klan was probably my most dramatic adventure as a reporter in North Carolina but it was not typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...
Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...