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The Fist of God
PRAISE FOR
THE FIST OF GOD
“ ‘The man with ten minutes to live was laughing.’ So begins
Frederick Forsyth’s The Fist of God—and even with just that one line
you can see that he has returned to the pulse-pounding form of such
books as The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. Forsyth has
written perhaps the first true thriller to come out of the Gulf War.”
—Book-of-the-Month Club News
“[A] fat, layered, complex, and altogether sublime spy action novel ...
The Fist of God is delicious yet authentic fun, the stuff of good
espionage thrillers.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“The Gulf War is the setting of Forsyth’s brilliantly plotted ‘what if’
thriller in which historical facts are turned into gripping fiction. ... It’s
the mark of master Forsyth that characters and background information
are introduced so cleanly and precisely that impossibly complex events
are never confusing, and the story develops its grip so surely it’s
almost impossible to put the book down.” —Publishers Weekly
“The novel ends in a blaze of top-notch military action, finely wrought
descriptions of the gadgetry of destruction, and a twisty revelation. ...
Super sleuthing.” —Kirkus Reviews
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The Fist of God
Bantam Books by Frederick Forsyth
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
THE DEVIL’S ALTERNATIVE
THE DOGS OF WAR
NO COMEBACKS
THE ODESSA FILE
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
THE NEGOTIATOR
THE DECEIVER
THE FIST OF GOD
Available wherever Bantam Books are sold
FREDERICK
FORSYTH
THE FIST
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The Fist of God
OF GOD
BANTAM BOOKS
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This edition contains the complete text
of the original hardcover edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.
THE FIST OF GOD
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published June 1994
Bantam export edition / February 1995
Bantam paperback edition / August 1995
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Copyright © 1994 by Bantam Books,
a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
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For the widows and orphans of the Special Air Service
Regiment.
And for Sandy, without whose support this would have been
so much harder.
To those who know what really happened in the Gulf, and
who spoke to me about it, my sincere thanks. You know who
you are; let it be.
CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
THE AMERICANS
George Bush President
James Baker Secretary of State
Colin Powell Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Norman Commander-in-Chief, Coalition
Schwarzkopf Forces, Gulf Theater
Lieutenant General Commander, Coalition Air Forces,
Charles (Chuck) Horner Gulf Theater
Brigadier General Deputy to Chuck Horner
Buster Glosson
Bill Stewart Deputy Director (Operations), CIA
Chip Barber Head, Middle East Division, CIA
William Webster Director of Central Intelligence, CIA
Don Walker USAF fighter pilot
Steve Turner USAF fighter squadron commander
Tim Nathanson Wizzo to Don Walker
Randy Roberts Wingman to Don Walker
Jim Henry Wizzo to Randy Roberts
Harry Sinclair Head of London Station, CIA
Saul Nathanson Banker and philanthropist
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“Daddy” Lomax Retired nuclear physicist
THE BRITISH
Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister
John Major Thatcher’s successor as Prime Minister
Lieutenant General Commander, British Forces, Gulf Theater
Sir Peter de la Billière
Sir Colin McColl Chief, SIS
Sir Paul Spruce Chairman, British Medusa Committee
Brigadier J.P, Lovat Director, Special Forces
Colonel Bruce Craig Commanding Officer, 22nd SAS Regiment
Major Mike Martin Major, SAS
Major “Sparky” Low SAS Officer, Khafji
Dr. Terry Martin Academic and Arabist
Steve Laing Director of Operations, Mid-East Division, SIS
Simon Paxman Head of Iraq Desk, SIS
Stuart Harris British businessman, Baghdad
Julian Gray Head of Station, SIS, Riyadh
Dr. Bryant Bacteriologist, Medusa Committee
Dr. Reinhart Poison gas expert, Medusa Committee
Dr. John Hipwell Nuclear expert, Medusa Committee
Sean Plummer Head of Arab Service, GCHQ
Wing Commander Commanding Officer, 608th Squadron, RAF
Philip Curzon
Squadron Leader Pilot, 608th Squadron, RAF
Lofty Williamson
Flight Lieutenant Williamson’s navigator
Sid Blair
Flight Lieutenant Pilot, 608th Squadron
Peter Johns
Flight Lieutenant Johns’s navigator
Nicky Tyne
Sergeant Peter SAS man
Stephenson
Corporal Ben Eastman SAS man
Corporal Kevin North SAS man
THE IRAQIS
Saddam Hussein President
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Izzat Ibrahim Deputy President
Hussein Kamil Saddam’s son-in-law, head of MIMI
Taha Ramadam Prime Minister
Sadoun Hammadi Deputy Premier
Tariq Aziz Foreign Minister
Ali Hassan Majid Governor-General, occupied Kuwait
General Saadi Tumah Commander, Republican Guard
Abbas
General Ali Musuli Commander, Engineering Corps
General Abdullah Commander, Armored Corps
Kadiri
Dr. Amer Saadi Deputy to Hussein Kamil
Brigadier Hassan Chief, Counterintelligence
Rahmani
Dr. Ismail Ubaidi Chief, Foreign Espionage
Brigadier Omar Chief, Secret Police (Amn-al-Amm)
Khatib
Colonel Osman Colonel, Army Engineers
Badri
Colonel Abdelkarim Colonel, Iraqi Air Force
Badri
Dr. Jaafar Al-Jaafar Head, nuclear program
Colonel Sabaawi Secret Police Chief, occupied Kuwait
Dr. Salah Siddiqui Nuclear engineer
THE KUWAITIS
Khaled Al-Khalifa Pilot, captain
Ahmed Al-Khalifa Merchant
Colonel Abu Fouad Head, resistance movement
Asrar Qabandi Heroine of resistance
THE ISRAELIS
Itzhak Shamir Prime Minister
General Yaacov Head of Mossad
“Kobi” Dror
Sami Gershon Head, Combatants Division, Mossad
David Sharon Head of Iraq Desk, Mossad
Benjamin Netanyahu Deputy Foreign Minister
Gideon “Gidi” Mission controller, Operation Joshua
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Barzilai
Dr. Moshe Hadari Arabist, Tel Aviv University
Avi Herzog, alias Mossad agent in Vienna
Karim Aziz
THE VIENNESE
Wolfgang Gemütlich Vice-president, the Winkler Bank
Edith Hardenberg Gemütlich’s private secretary
Contents
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
A Final Note
About The Author
THE FIST OF GOD
Chapter 1
The man with ten minutes to live was laughing.
The source of his amusement was a story just told him by his personal
aide, Monique Jaminé, who was driving him home that chill, drizzling
evening of March 22, 1990, from his office to his apartment.
It concerned a mutual colleague in the Space Research Corporation
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offices at rue de Stalle, a woman regarded as a real vamp, a man-eater,
who had turned out to be gay. The deception appealed to the man’s
lavatorial sense of humor.
The pair had left the offices in the Brussels suburb of Uccle, Belgium,
at ten to seven, Monique driving the Renault 21 estate wagon. She had,
some months earlier, sold her employer’s own Volkswagen because he
was such a rotten driver, she feared he would end up killing himself.
It was only a ten-minute drive from the offices to his apartment in the
center building of the three-building Cheridreu complex off rue
François Folie, but they stopped halfway there at a baker’s shop. Both
went inside, he to buy a loaf of his favorite pain de campagne. There
was rain in the wind; they bowed their heads, failing to notice the car
that followed behind them.
Nothing strange in that. Neither was trained in tradecraft; the
unmarked car with its two dark-jowled occupants had been following
the scientist for weeks, never losing him, never approaching him, just
watching; and he had not seen them. Others had, but he did not know.
Emerging from the shop just in front of the cemetery, he tossed his
loaf into the back seat and climbed aboard to complete the journey to
his home. At ten minutes after seven, Monique drew up in front of the
plate-glass doors of the apartment building, set fifteen meters back
from the street. She offered to come up with him, to see him home, but
he declined. She knew he would be expecting his girlfriend Helene and
did not wish them to meet. It was one of his vanities, in which his
adoring female staff indulged him, that Helene was just a good friend,
keeping him company while he was in Brussels and his wife was in
Canada.
He climbed out of the car, the collar of his belted trench coat turned up
as ever, and hefted onto his shoulder the big black canvas bag that
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hardly ever left him. It weighed over fifteen kilograms and contained a
mass of papers: scientific papers, projects, calculations, and data. The
scientist distrusted safes and thought illogically that all the details of
his latest projects were safer hanging from his shoulder.
The last Monique saw of her employer, he was standing in front of the
glass doors, his bag over one shoulder, the loaf under the other arm,
fumbling for his keys. She watched him go through the doors and the
self-locking plate glass swing closed behind him. Then she drove off.
The scientist lived on the sixth floor of the eight-story building. Two
elevators ran up the back wall of the building, encircled by the stairs,
with a fire door on each landing. He took one of them and stepped out
at the sixth floor. The dim, floor-level lights of the lobby came on
automatically as he did so. Still jangling his keys, leaning against the
weight of his bag, and clutching his loaf, he turned left and left again
across the russet-brown carpet and tried to fit his key into the lock of
his apartment door.
The killer had been waiting on the other side of the elevator shaft,
which jutted into the dimly lit lobby. He came quietly around the shaft
holding his silenced 7.65-mm. Beretta automatic, which was wrapped
in a plastic bag to prevent the ejected cartridges from spilling all over
the carpet.
Five shots, fired from less than a one-meter range into the back of the
head and neck, were more than enough. The big, burly man slumped
forward against his door and slithered to the carpet. The gunman did
not bother to check; there was no need. He had done this before,
practicing on prisoners, and he knew his work was done. He ran lightly
down the six flights of stairs, out of the back of the building, across the
tree-studded gardens, and into the waiting car. In an hour he was inside
his country’s embassy, in a day out of Belgium.
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