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Frederick Forsyth – The Fourth Protocol
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DON’T MISS THESE
GRIPPING BOOKS
BY FREDERICK FORSYTH
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
THE ODESSA FILE
THE DOGS OF WAR
THE DEVIL’S ALTERNATIVE
NO COMEBACKS
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
THE NEGOTIATOR
THE DECEIVER
THE FIST OF GOD
AND IN HARDCOVER
ICON
AVAILABLE WHEREVER
BANTAM BOOKS ARE SOLD
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THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
“Pure suspense.”
—Saturday Review
“Frederick Forsyth has hit the jackpot again. ... The Fourth Protocol is striking ... hard to
put down. ... His grasp of the organization of various intelligence agencies is
unimpeachable.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“The Fourth Protocol begins slowly and gently with a common jewel robbery and
quickly evolves into an espionage thriller involving Great Britain, South Africa and the
Soviet Union. ... As in all good spy novels there are plenty of threads that remain loose
until the last 50 pages. ... Fast paced.”
—Bestsellers
“The Fourth Protocol is as good as anything he has done. ... Forsyth’s appeal in this kind
of book goes well beyond his clockwork plots—and in The Fourth Protocol he is at the
top of his form.”
—Houston Chronicle
“Will keep espionage fans turning the pages. ... The plotting is clever, and there is plenty
of action, and a neat twist at the end.”
—New Woman
“Suspenseful plotting, direct and efficient writing, and detailing of everything from a
safe-cracking to the smuggling of nuclear bomb components. ... The most fascinating spy
novel since The Little Drummer Girl.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“For sheer professionalism I give you the knowledge, invention and narrative skill of
Frederick Forsyth who, ever since his The Day of the Jackal, has proved himself a master
of the genre. ... In this large-scale novel of international intrigue he outdoes himself both
as storyteller and in extrapolating fiction from the facts of world affairs. ... You will find
it hard to stop reading once you have begun. ... His most ambitious and intricately
constructed book to date. ... Forsyth has no peer.”
—John Barkham Reviews
“An exciting tale of espionage, filled with the sorts of twists spy-story aficionados love.”
—Associated Press
“Forsyth has meticulously constructed another intricate yet exciting spy novel. ... It
succeeds magnificently ... as a scrupulously detailed study of spy ‘tradecraft’ and as a
testament to the virtues of a well-constructed plot.”
—Booklist
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“Forsyth is rather like watching a ballet. Each component—the prose, the pacing, the
story, the characters—is beautiful to watch, the whole superbly executed, setting the
blood running much as music does.”
—Cosmopolitan
“Pure Forsyth: a meticulous, detailed unraveling of a dastardly plot to send the world, or
at least most of Europe, into ferment. ... Nary a reader, Forsyth veteran or otherwise, will
be disappointed.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Frederick Forsyth is a giant among the creators of fictional international intrigue. ...
Truly fascinating ... rousing.”
—Kansas City Star
“Frederick Forsyth, who once labored for the Reuters news service, burst on the thriller
scene in pretty dramatic fashion a while back with his first novel The Day of the Jackal.
... Comes now The Fourth Protocol, which I’m sure Mr. Forsyth’s fans will gobble up.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Vitally suspenseful. ... Forsyth not only knows how to craft a successful suspense
novel—he also has a well-developed sense of the political realities of confrontation
between East and West.”
—Seattle Times
“Damnably good reading.”
—St. Petersburg Times
“The plots and counterplots of The Fourth Protocol race toward each other with shrewd
complexity, unfolding with the brisk, mesmerizing suspense and clockwork timing that
have become Forsyth’s trademarks. ... Forsyth’s proven again he is the unsurpassed
master of the countdown thriller.”
—The Charlotte Observer
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Bantam Books by Frederick Forsyth
Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
THE ODESSA FILE
THE DOGS OF WAR
THE DEVIL’S ALTERNATIVE
NO COMEBACKS
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
THE NEGOTIATOR
THE DECEIVER
THE FIST OF GOD
Frederick Forsyth – The Fourth Protocol
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BANTAM BOOKS
NEW YORK • TORONTO • LONDON • SYDNEY • AUCKLAND
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This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with Viking Penguin
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Viking edition published September 1984
Bantam Export edition / April 1985
Bantam edition / September 1985
Bantam reissue / August 1995
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1984 by Frederick Forsyth.
Cover art copyright © 1995 by Bantam Books.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For
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ISBN 0-553-25113-9
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For Shane Richard, aged five,
without whose loving attentions this book
would have been written in half the time.
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Contents
PART ONE..................................................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 1 ................................................................................................................................................. 10
Chapter 2 ................................................................................................................................................. 24
Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................................................. 33
Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................................................. 42
Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................................................. 50
Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................................................. 60
Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................................................. 71
PART TWO.................................................................................................................................................. 80
Chapter 8 ................................................................................................................................................. 81
Chapter 9 ................................................................................................................................................. 92
Chapter 10.............................................................................................................................................. 102
Chapter 11.............................................................................................................................................. 112
Chapter 12.............................................................................................................................................. 122
Chapter 13.............................................................................................................................................. 134
Chapter 14.............................................................................................................................................. 144
Chapter 15.............................................................................................................................................. 153
PART THREE............................................................................................................................................ 161
Chapter 16.............................................................................................................................................. 162
Chapter 17.............................................................................................................................................. 172
Chapter 18.............................................................................................................................................. 179
Chapter 19.............................................................................................................................................. 189
Chapter 20.............................................................................................................................................. 199
Chapter 21.............................................................................................................................................. 209
Chapter 22.............................................................................................................................................. 218
Chapter 23.............................................................................................................................................. 230
Epilogue ..................................................................................................................................................... 237
About the Author........................................................................................................................................ 238
About the e-Book ....................................................................................................................................... 239
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PART ONE
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Chapter 1
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they
were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he
watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
The big, wide limousine swooped up from the subterranean parking area with the
powerful grace implied by its name. It paused for an instant in the mouth of the cavern as
its driver checked the street for traffic, then turned into the road and headed toward Hyde
Park Corner.
Sitting across from the luxury apartment building, dressed in a chauffeur’s uniform at
the wheel of the rented Volvo Estate, Jim Rawlings breathed a sigh of relief. Gazing
unobserved across the Belgravia street, he had seen what he had hoped for—the husband
had been at the wheel, with his wife beside him. Rawlings already had the engine running
and the heater on to keep out the cold. Moving the automatic shift into Drive, he eased
out of the line of parked cars and went after the Jaguar.
It was a crisp and bright morning, with a pale wash of light over Green Park in the east,
and the streetlights still on. Rawlings had been at the stakeout since five o’clock, and
although a few people had passed down the street, no one had taken any notice of him. A
chauffeur in a big car in Belgravia, richest of London’s West End districts, attracts no
attention, least of all with four suitcases and a hamper in the back, on the morning of
December 31. Many of the rich would be preparing to leave the capital to celebrate the
festivities at their country homes.
He was fifty yards behind the Jaguar at Hyde Park Corner and allowed a truck to move
between them. Up Park Lane, Rawlings had one momentary misgiving; there was a
branch of Coutts Bank there and he feared the couple in the Jaguar might pause to drop
the diamonds into the night safe.
At Marble Arch he breathed a second sigh of relief. The limousine ahead of him made
no turn around the arch to take the southbound carriageway back down Park Lane toward
the bank. It sped straight up Great Cumberland Place, joined Gloucester Place, and kept
on north. So, the occupants of the luxury apartment on the eighth floor of Fontenoy
House were not leaving the items with Coutts; either they had them in the car and were
taking them to the country or they were leaving them for the New Year period in the
apartment. Rawlings was confident it would be the latter.
He tailed the Jaguar to Hendon, watched it speeding into the last mile before the M1
motorway, and then turned back toward central London. Evidently, as he had hoped, they
were going to join the wife’s brother, the Duke of Sheffield, at his estate in north
Yorkshire, a full six-hour drive away. That would give him a minimum of twenty-four
hours, more than he needed. He had no doubt he could take the apartment at Fontenoy
House; he was, after all, one of the best safecrackers in London.
By midmorning he had returned the Volvo to the rental company, the uniform to the
costumiers, and the empty suitcases to his closet. He was back in his top-floor flat, a
comfortable and expensively furnished pad atop a converted tea warehouse in his native
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