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You may also like. Books PupilGarage presents huge collection of books. Check It Out. Interview Questions PupilGarage presents the frequently asked questions for interviews along with important tips for the interview. At the age of fifty-one it ought to be indictable under the Geneva Convention. The runner had passed his fifty-first the previous January. He dared a glance at his wrist and scowled. Not good; he was several minutes down on his best. He drove harder against his enemy. The Olympians are looking at just under two hours; the New Jersey runner had clipped two and a half hours.

He was almost at that time now, and still two Ks to go. The first houses of his hometown came into view round a curve in Highway The old, pre-Revolution village of Pennington straddles the Thirty, just off Interstate 95 running down from New York, through the state and on to Delaware, Pennsylvania and Washington.

Inside the village the Highway is called Main Street. There is not much to Pennington, one of a million neat, clean, tidy, neighbourly small towns that make up the overlooked and underestimated heart of the USA. The runner headed for the crossroads, half a K to go. He was too early for a coffee at the Cup of Joe cafe, or breakfast at Vito's Pizza, but even had they been open he would not have stopped. South of the junction he passed the Civil War vintage, white clapboard house with the shingle of Mr.

Calvin Dexter, attorney-at-law, next to the door. It was his office, his shingle and his law practice, save for the occasions when he took time off and went away to attend to his other practice. Clients and neighbours accepted that he took fishing vacations now and then, knowing nothing of the small apartment under another name in New York City. He drove his aching legs that last five hundred yards to reach the turning into Chesapeake Drive at the south end of town.

That was where he lived and the corner marked the end of his self-imposed Calvary. He slowed, stopped and hung his head, leaning against a tree, sucking in oxygen to heaving lungs. Two hours, thirty-six minutes. Far from his best. That there was probably no one within a hundred miles who, aged fifty-one, could come near it was not the point. The point, as he could never dare to explain to the neighbours who grinned and cheered him on, was to use the pain to combat the other pain, the always pain, the pain that never went away, the pain of lost child, lost love, lost everything.

The runner turned into his street and walked the last two hundred yards. Ahead of him he saw the newspaper lad hurl a heavy bundle onto his porch. The kid waved as he cycled past and Cal Dexter waved back. Later he would take his motor scooter and go to retrieve his truck.

With the scooter in the rear, he would drive home, picking up the racing bike along the road. First he needed a shower, some high-energy bars and the contents of several oranges.

On the stoop he picked up the bundle of newspapers, broke them open and looked. As he expected, there was the local paper, another from Washington, from New York the big Sunday Times and, in a wrapper, a technical magazine. Calvin Dexter, the wiry, sandy-haired, friendly, smiling attorney of Pennington, New Jersey, had not been born to be any such thing, though he was indeed born in the state. He was created in a Newark slum, rife with roaches and rats, and came into the world in January , the son of a construction worker and a waitress at the local diner.

His parents, according to the morality of the age, had had no choice but to marry when a meeting in a neighbourhood dance hall and a few glasses too much of bad hooch had led to things getting out of hand and his own conception. Early on, he knew nothing of this. Babies never know how or by whom they got here. They have to find out, sometimes the hard way.

His father was not a bad man, by his lights. After Pearl Harbor he had volunteered for the armed forces, but as a skilled construction worker he had been deemed more useful at home, where the war effort involved the creation of thousands of new factories, dockyards and government offices in the New Jersey area. He was a hard man, quick with his fists, the only law on many blue-collar jobs.

But he tried to live on the straight and narrow, bringing his wage packet home unopened, trying to raise his toddler son to love Old Glory, the Constitution and Joe DiMaggio. But later, after the Korean War, the job opportunities slipped away. Only the industrial blight remained and the unions were in the grip of the Mob.

Calvin was five when his mother left. He was too young to understand why. He knew nothing of the loveless union his parents had had, accepting with the philosophical endurance of the very young that people always shouted and quarreled that way. He knew nothing of the travelling salesman who had promised her bright lights and better frocks. He was simply told she had 'gone away'. He had accepted that his father was now home each evening, looking after him instead of having a few beers after work, staring glumly at a foggy television screen.

It was not until his teens that he learned his mother, abandoned in her turn by the travelling salesman, had tried to return, but had been rebuffed by the angry and bitter father. When he was seven his father hit upon the idea to solve the problem of a home and the need to search for work far and wide. They moved out of the walk-up tenement in Newark and acquired a second-hand trailer home.

This became his home for ten years. Father and son moved from job to job, living in the trailer, the scruffy boy attending whichever local school would take him.

It was the age of Kennedy, the Cold War and Vietnam. The jobs came and the jobs were completed. For a time they lived in the Pine Barrens while Dexter Senior was foreman on a small project. Then they headed south to Atlantic City. Between the ages of eight and sixteen Cal attended nine grade schools in as many years. His formal education could fill an entire postage stamp. But he became wise in other ways: street-wise, fight-wise. Like his departed mother, he did not grow tall, topping out at five feet nine inches.

Nor was he heavy and muscular like his father, but his lean frame packed fearsome stamina and his fists a killer punch. Once he challenged the booth fighter in a fairground sideshow, knocked him flat and took the twenty-dollar prize. A man who smelt of cheap pomade approached his father and suggested the boy attend his gym with a view to becoming a boxer, but they moved on to a new city and a new job.

There was no question of money for vacations, so when school was out, the kid just came to the construction site with his father. There he made coffee, ran errands, did odd jobs. Thus for the summer vacation of he became a bookie's runner. Even from the bottom of the social pile, a smart kid can still look. Cal Dexter could sneak unpaying into the local movie house and marvel at the glamour of Hollywood, the huge rolling vistas of the Wild West, the shimmering glitz of the screen musicals, the crazy antics of the Martin and Lewis comedies.

He could still see in the television adverts smart apartments with stainless-steel kitchens, smiling families in which the parents seemed to love each other.

He could look at the gleaming limousines and sports cars on the billboards above the highway. He had nothing against the hardhats of the construction sites.

They were gruff and crude, but they were kind to him, or most of them anyway. On site he too wore a hard hat and the general presumption was that once out of school he would follow his father into the building trade.

But he had other ideas. Whatever life he had, he vowed, it would be far from the crash of the trip-hammer and the choking dust of cement mixers. Then he realized that he had nothing to offer in exchange for that better, more moneyed, more comfortable life.

He thought of the movies, but presumed all film stars were towering men, unaware that most are well under five feet nine. This thought only came to him because some barmaid said she thought he looked a bit like James Dean, but the building workers roared with laughter, so he dropped the idea. Sport and athletics could get a kid out of the street and on the road to fame and fortune, but he had been through all his schools so fast he had never had a chance to make any of the school teams.

Anything involving a formal education, let alone qualifications, was out of the question. That left other kinds of working-class employment: table-waiter, bellhop, grease-monkey in a garage, delivery-van driver; the list was endless but for all the prospects most of them offered he might as well stay with construction.

The sheer brutalism and danger of the work made it better paid than most. Or there was crime. No one raised on the waterfronts or construction camps of New Jersey could possibly be unaware that organized crime, running with the gangs, could lead to a life of big apartments, fast cars and easy women.

The word was, it hardly ever led to jail. He was not Italian-American, which would preclude full membership of the Mob aristocracy, but there were Wasps who had made good. He quit school at seventeen and started the next day at his father's work site a public works housing project outside Camden. A month later the driver operator of the earthmover fell ill.

There was no substitute. It was a skilled job. Cal looked at the interior of the cab. The foreman was dubious. It would be against all the rules. Any inspector chancing along and his job would be history. On the other hand, the whole team was standing around needing mountains of earth shifted. It took about twenty minutes to work out what lever did which function. He began to shift dirt. It meant a bonus, but it was still not a career.

In January he turned eighteen and the Viet Cong launched the Tet offensive. He was watching television in a bar in Camden. After the newscast came several commercials and then a brief recruitment film made by the army. It mentioned that, if you shaped up, the army would give you an education. The desire of just about every teenager and twice that number of parents was to get out of it.

The Master Sergeant behind the desk held out his hand for the draft card. The MS drew a form towards him, keeping eye contact like a ferret that does not want the rabbit to get away. That's a very smart thing to do. Take a word of advice from an old sweat? Good chance of better postings, better career choices. The MS thought this one over. He might have said, "There's no accounting for taste. He went to the technical magazine first. Vintage Airplane is not a big-circulation organ and in Pennington it could only be obtained by placing a special order.

It caters for those with a passion for classic and World War II airplanes. The runner flicked to the small ads section and studied the wanted notices. He stopped, the juice halfway to his mouth, put down the glass and read the item again. Serious offer. No price ceiling. Please call. They were in museums. Someone had uncovered the contact code. There was a number.

It had to be a cellphone. The date was 13 May It should never have ended that way. He was born to get a college degree and live out his life in the States, with a wife and children and a decent chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It went wrong because he was too kind-hearted. Back in a young and brilliant mathematician called Adrian Colenso secured tenure as a Professor of Math at Georgetown University, just outside Washington. He was twenty-five, remarkably young for the post. Three years later, he gave a summer seminar in Toronto, Canada. Among those who attended, even though she understood little of what he was saying, was a stunningly pretty student called Annie Edmond.

She was smitten and arranged a blind date through close friends. Adrian Colenso had never heard of her father, which both puzzled and delighted her. She had already been urgently pursued by half a dozen fortune hunters. In the car back to the hotel she discovered that apart from an amazing grasp of quantum calculus, he also kissed rather well.

A week later he flew back to Washington. Miss Edmond was not a young lady to be gainsaid. Two months later they married. As a present, the bride's father bought the couple a large country house on Foxhall Road, off Nebraska Avenue, in one of the most rustic and therefore sought-after areas of Georgetown.

It was set in its own forested one-acre plot, with pool and tennis court. The bride's allowance would cover its upkeep and the groom's salary would just about do the rest. They settled down into loving domesticity. He grew up like millions of other American youngsters in a secure and loving parental home, doing all the things that boys do, spending time at summer camps, discovering and exploring the thrills of girls and sports cars, worrying over academic grades and looming examinations.

He was neither brilliant like his father nor dumb. He inherited his father's quirky grin and his mother's good looks. Everyone who knew him rated him a nice kid. If someone asked him for help, he would do all he could. But he should never have gone to Bosnia. He graduated out of high school in and was accepted for Harvard the following autumn.

That winter, watching on television the sadism of ethnic cleansing and the aftermath of the refugees' misery and the relief programmes in a far-away place called Bosnia, he determined that he wanted to help in some way.

His mother pleaded that he should stay in the States; there were relief programmes right at home if he wanted to exercise his social conscience. But the images he had seen of gutted villages, wailing orphans and the blank-eyed despair of the refugees had affected him deeply, and Bosnia it had to be.

Ricky begged that he be allowed to get involved. A few calls from his father established that the world agency was the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, with a big office in New York. By early spring of three years of civil war as the old federation of Yugoslavia tore itself apart had gutted the province of Bosnia. The UNHCR was there in strength, with a staff of about 'internationals' and several thousand locally recruited staffers.

The outfit was headed up on the spot by a former British soldier, the full-bearded and restlessly energetic Larry Hollingworth, whom Ricky had seen on television.

Ricky went to New York to inquire about procedures for enlistment. The New York office was kind but less than enthusiastic. Amateur offers came in by the sack load and the personal visits were several dozen a day. The dejected young man was heading down again in the elevator at the start of the lunch hour when a middle-aged secretary gave him a kindly smile. It's much more relaxed right on the spot.

Ricky had a long call with his parents, got their grudging permission, and flew New York-Vienna-Zagreb. But the reply was still the same: forms to fill, only long-term commitments were really sought. Summertime amateurs were a lot of responsibility, precious little contribution. Disaster relief is an entire industry and for many a profession. There were over three hundred NGOs involved in Bosnia.

Some were a ith-based, some secular, and many of the smaller ones had simply come into being for the Bosnian civil war, impelled by TV images beamed endlessly into the West.

At the extreme bottom end were single trucks driven across Europe by a couple of beefy lads who had had a whip-round in their local bar. The jumping-off point for the drive on the last leg into the heart of Bosnia was either Zagreb or the Adriatic port of Split.

Ricky found the cafe, ordered a coffee and slivovitz against the bitter March wind outside and looked around for a possible contact.

Two hours later a burly, bearded man, built like a trucker, walked in. He wore a plaid mackinaw and ordered coffee and cognac in a voice Ricky placed as coming from North or South Carolina. He went up and introduced himself. He had struck lucky. John Slack was a dispatcher and distributor of relief aid for a small American charity called Loaves 'n' Fishes, a recently formed offshoot of Salvation Road, which itself was the corporate manifestation in a sinful world of the Rev.

Billy Jones, television evangelist and saver of souls for the appropriate donation of the fine city of Charleston, South Carolina. He listened to Ricky as one who had heard it all before. I have an allowance from my grandpa. Just to help? Mine's a small operation. I go and buy relief food, clothes, blankets, whatever, right here on the spot, mainly in Austria.

I truck-drive it down to Zagreb, refuel and then head into Bosnia. We're based at Travnik. Thousands of refugees down there. The truck was a ten-ton German Hanomag and Ricky got the hang of it before the border. It took them ten hours to Travnik, spelling each other at the wheel. It was midnight when they arrived at the Loaves 'n' Fishes compound just outside the town. Slack threw him several blankets.

It involved a second truck about to leave for the north to collect more supplies with a monosyllabic Swede at the wheel, one small, shared compound wired with chain-link fencing to keep out pilferers, a tiny office made out of a workman's portable cabin, a shed called a warehouse for unloaded but not yet distributed food aid, and three locally recruited Bosnian staffers.

Plus two new black Toyota Landcruisers for small-cargo aid distribution. Slack introduced him all round and by afternoon Ricky had found lodging with a Bosnian widow in the town. To get to and from the compound he bought a ramshackle bicycle from the stash he kept in a money belt round his waist.

John Slack noticed the belt. Just don't wave it around or you'll create one. These guys can retire for life on that. Postal services, he soon discovered, were non-existent, inasmuch as no Bosnian state existed so no Bosnian Post Office had come into being and the old Yugoslav services had collapsed.

John Slack told him any driver running up to Croatia or on to Austria would post letters and cards for everyone. Ricky wrote a quick card from the bundle he had bought in Vienna airport and thrown into his haversack. This the Swede took north. Colenso received it a week later. Travnik had once been a thriving market town, inhabited by Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims. Their presence could be discerned by the churches.

There was a Catholic one for the departed Croats, an Orthodox one for the also departed Serbs, and a dozen mosques for the majority Muslims, the ones still called Bosnians. With the coming of the civil war the tri-ethnic community which had lived in harmony for years was shattered. As pogrom after pogrom was reported across the land, all inter-ethnic trust evaporated.

The Serbs quit and retreated north of the Vlasic mountain range that dominates Travnik, across the Lasva river valley and into Banja Luka on the other side. The Croats were also forced out and most went down the road ten miles to Vitez. Thus three single-ethnic strongholds were formed.

Into each poured the refugees of that particular ethnic group. In the world media the Serbs were portrayed as the perpetrators of all the pogroms, though they had also seen Serb communities butchered when isolated and in the minority. The reason was that in the old Yugoslavia the Serbs had had the dominant control of the army; when the country fell apart, they simply grabbed 90 per cent of the heavy weaponry, giving them an insuperable edge.

The Croats, also no slouches when it came to slaughtering non-Croat minorities in their midst, had been granted irresponsibly premature recognition by the German Chancellor Kohl; they could then buy weapons on the world market. The Bosnians were largely unarmed, and kept that way on the advice of European politicians. As a result, they suffered most of the brutalities.

In late spring it would be the Americans who, sick and tired of standing by and doing nothing, would use their military power to give the Serbs a bloody nose and force all parties to the conference table at Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton Agreement would be implemented that coming November.

Ricky Colenso would not see it. By the time Ricky reached Travnik, it had stopped a lot of shells from Serb positions across the mountains. Most of the buildings were shrouded with planks leaning against the walls. If hit by an in comer they would be splintered to matchwood, but save the house itself. Most windows were missing and were replaced by plastic sheeting.

The brightly painted main mosque had somehow been spared a direct hit. The two largest buildings in town, the gymnasium high school and the once famous Music School, were stuffed with refugees. With virtually no access to the surrounding countryside and thus no access to growing crops, the refugees, about three times the original population, were dependent on the aid agencies to survive.

But the two Landcruisers could be piled up with five hundred pounds of relief aid and still make it to various outlying villages and hamlets where the need was even greater than in Travnik centre.

Ricky happily agreed to back-haul the sacks of food and drive the off-roads into the mountains to the south. Four months after he had sat in Georgetown and seen on the television screen the images of human misery that had brought him here, he was happy. He was doing what he came to do. He was touched by the gratitude of the gnarled peasants and their brown, saucer-eyed children when he hauled sacks of wheat, maize, milk powder and soup concentrates into the centre of an isolated village that had not eaten for a week.

He believed he was paying back in some way for all the benefits and comforts that a benign God, in whom he firmly believed, had bestowed upon him at his birth simply by creating him an American. He spoke not a word of Serbo-Croat, the common language of all Yugoslavia, nor the Bosnian patois. He had no idea of the local geography, where the mountain roads led, where was safe and where could be dangerous. John Slack paired him with one of the local Bosnian staffers, a young man with reasonable, school-learned English, called Fadil Suleiman, who acted as his guide, interpreter and navigator.

Each week through April and the first fortnight of May he dispatched either a letter or card to his parents, and with greater or lesser delays, depending on who was heading north for resupplies, they arrived in Georgetown bearing Croatian or Austrian stamps.

It was in the second week of May that Ricky found himself alone and in charge of the entire depot. Lars, the Swede, had had a major engine breakdown on a lonely mountain road in Croatia, north of the border but short of Zagreb.

Fadil Suleiman asked Ricky for a favour. Like thousands in Travnik, Fadil had been forced to flee his home when the tide of war swept towards it. He explained that his family home had been a farm or small holding in an upland valley on the slopes of the Vlasic range. He was desperate to know if there was anything left of it.

Had it been torched or spared? Was it still standing? When the war began, his father had buried family treasures under a barn. Were they still there? In a word, could he visit his parental home for the first time in three years? Ricky happily gave him time off but that was not the real point. With the tracks up the mountain slick with spring rain, only an off-road would make it. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.

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Loved each and every part of this book. Dexter had faked his own death with his first attempt and it had bought him some time, so the San Marino army was ticked and started looking for him everywhere while Devereux sent his second in command there to take charge and take care of Zilic.

He was worried Zilic would not go after bin Laden if he found out a mercenary was after him and the CIA couldn't get him. So does Dexter do it? Well, you know he must, right? But how? I'm not going to tell you. You're going to have to read the book yourself. It's pretty damn amazing though.

Even with Zilic finally finding out about Dexter and the dogs being loosed and all of the guards being stationed everywhere, is it possible Dexter still finds a way? It's completely crazy. When everything's over, Dexter winds up back in the US and calls the man in Canada. But it's the final page of the book that's stunning and makes it worth the price of the book alone.

I won't spoil it for you. The reason why I'm not giving this book five stars and am giving it only four is because Forsyth leaves so many things to chance that Dexter gets right. It's just not very realistic. How would he know the man he kidnaps would be working that day?

How would he know the guards would go for those small bombs? How would he know they'd go for the airplane? That seems like the unlikeliest assumption to me. How did he know a lot of things? How did he know to always stay one step ahead of the CIA, especially when he didn't even know the CIA was tracking him? It's just not that realistic. But it makes for a fantastic story. If you can get past the realism aspect of it, it's a fun ride. I definitely recommend this book.

Probably one of Forsythe's best if not the best. What are a series of short stories become inextricably bound together, each dependent and then supportive of the other.

Intricately plotted, shades of Day of the Jackal, the story carries one along irresistibly to a powerful and rewarding conclusion. Cover blurb is just about right: " A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks.

What I like most about his novels is the historical and political insights that didn't always make it into the media, or that I seem to have missed, plus the things I remember all too well. Typical of the formerp. The deal was simple: You can do whatever you like, and we will turn a blind eye under one condition -- you do it abroad. I was lucky enough to snag a copy of The Cobra from Library Thing's stash of books and it triggered my interest in other Cal Dexter - Paul Devereaux books.

Now I know why Paul recruited Cal for the Cobra project. Forsyth is the master of this genre. This is not his best book, and yet it stands heads and shoulders above most of the work written in this arena.

Forsyth adds marvelous detail, it becomes almost a learning experience. That is what I enjoy about his work. I have always been a big fan of Frederick Forsyth and "Avenger" must be his best book since "Day of the Jackal".

It is and Ricky Colenso is working as an aid volunteer in war-torn Yugoslavia. He is ambushed one day by Serbian thug Zoran Zilac and his gang and is eventually brutally murdered. Colenso's rich grandfather vows to mete out revenge himself by hiring a mercenary known as the "Avenger", a former US Special Forces commando in Vietnam, to capture Zilac and bring him to the US for trial.

What follows is a meticulous account of how the Avenger prepares for the snatch from a heavily fortified island to bring Zilac to justice, while at the same time being hindered every step of the way by the CIA who is determined to protect Zilac to get to Bin Laden. Oh and by the way, the ending will blow your socks off.