It bares a resemblance to a SQUID III with twice the gems on its crown, sporting 24 legs (The same as SPIDER I and SPIDER II) below its several skull nodes. I think it's going to be the new al-Qaida … the new epicentre, and I want to try and get in there. The LEVIATHAN is a towering amalgamation of Bone, Tentacle, and Evil, consuming and transmuting anything that draws near it. I will have to go there … I want to go into the deep south, into Mogadishu and investigate al-Shabaab. "I'm actually getting rather miffed because what I thought was an obscure subject is coming up in the headlines: Somalia. "With the government taking 50%, I thought perhaps I can do with a little more," he said. It's rather gruelling," he said.Īlthough the thriller author has said in the past that he doesn't intend to write any more novels, he's currently deep in research for a new one, which he hopes to begin writing up in October. "I force myself to do that, otherwise I'd end up with lots of half-written novels. I couldn't find a million-tonner but I found a third-of-a-million-tonner and went up to Norway so I could describe it."įorsyth spends around nine months researching each novel, and then writes it up in two-and-a-half months, producing 10 pages a day and sitting at his typewriter for six hours, from six in the morning. Things like the tanker from The Devil's Alternative – I thought I'd better go and see one of these bloody things.
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I get a full mail bag if I get anything wrong. "I've got to go the extra mile, and it's now required. Gold Dragon and Devil are both blocked from one of the soft requirements (no check for reaching max level for them), but they still have 6 other ones to choose from for their five. "I've got lumbered with this idea that if I'm going to say this is how a Luger pistol was, it had bloody well be right," he said. The authenticity of his writing, meanwhile, stems from his own "pernicketiness", and has seen the author travel around the world to research details for his books. "My characters are two-dimensional, my dialogue is not going to set the Thames on fire – but that's alright, because I do make 80% of the book plot," with dialogue, character and style "squeezed into 20%". I didn't mean to," said Forsyth, a former RAF pilot and investigative journalist who used his experience as a reporter when writing his first novel to move it along at a cracking pace: "This, this, this happened," he said. "The really weird thing is that it's all inadvertent. The novel is "one of the greatest thrillers of our times", added author and chair of the Association Peter James, who praised Forsyth for setting "a new standard of research-based authenticity with his writing, which has had a major influence both on my work and on many of my contemporaries" in the crime and thriller field. The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth's debut about an assassin hired to kill President de Gaulle, "defined" the modern thriller "with its lightning-paced storytelling, effortlessly cool reality and unique insider information", said the Crime Writers Association, which made the award.