The Negotiator

Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man—Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet—can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator. President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all—and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths—to save not only the victim but the entire free world.

Frederick Forsyth,  master of the international thriller, retums with  an electrifying story of a man of immense power and  a conspiracy to crush the President of the United  States. Only one man—Forsyth's most  unforgettable hero yet—can prevent the plan from succeeding.  His name is Quinn. He is the  Negotiator.President Cormack is  bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet  disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is  determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a  country road in Oxfordshire is but the first  brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the  president's destruction. Enter  Quinn.  Quinn plays the  kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking  tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their  objection after all—and that he has been lured  into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon  his deepest strengths—to save not only the victim  but the entire free  world.

Richard Condon

As high-tech novels go, ''The Negotiator'' is about as high as the most advanced data-banker could desire....In high-tech novels, places and objects become the surrogates for character and, because of the extent to which they continually interrupt the narrative, become the story itself....Frederick Forsyth, who wrote ''The Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War,''uses terms such as ''Crisis Management Group,'' ''COBRA,'' ''psycho-portraits,'' ''USAF VC20A'' and on and on until literally thousands of such details fill the reader's mind, persuading him to accept all of it as a story. -- New York Times

The U.S. President is poised to sign a major disarmament treaty with the Soviets. But a foul plot is out to prevent the agreement. When a young man is kidnapped on an Oxford country road, Quinn steps in to negotiate. Plots within plots boil and bubble, and Quinn discovers he must save not only the victim but the entire free world Oliereserverne i øst og vest er ved at slippe op, afspænding er en nødvendighed, dét truer våbenfabrikanterne, og én prøver at redde sig ved at få taget den amerikanske præsidents søn som gidsel Quinn, the negotiator, is called in to resolve the plot to keep the U.S. President from signing a U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty