Some of my friends around me are slow to read books because they "can't help but imagine that picture while reading a book." Well, the "Avengers" of this "Mr. Spy series" must satisfy their imagination, and the sense of picture is too strong! It was almost like watching a thrilling blockbuster: a collection of secret agents, war, action themes, full of suspense, thriller, bloody elements.
The author Forsyth, "the master of spy novels who has worked secretly in MI6 for more than twenty years and alarmed the world's four major intelligence organizations", has rich experience, is familiar with the political propositions, historical grievances, espionage techniques, weapons and equipment of various countries in the world, and often integrates his own legendary experience into the work, which can satisfy our curiosity about the spy world. His novels are known as "Killer Guide" and "Spy Training Manual".
Last month I already wrote a collection of short stories in the "Mr. Spy Series", which you can review with interest: "Mr. Spy": The novel written by the master spy is too wonderful and too beautiful (click on the blue word to jump)
The novel "The Avengers" looks more enjoyable than a short story collection. Ingenious ideas, raw themes, tense and exciting plots, meticulous and clear details, and hidden clues bring a pleasant and vivid reading experience.
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The novel is divided into several main lines. Straight to the point, let's start with "The Avengers."
"Avenger" is a code name, not to kill, but to kidnap, hijack, pay to hunt down fugitives.
The "Avenger" is very hidden, the FBI once sent agents to impersonate the parties to meet him, and he quickly recognized him, disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the agents did not even see his face.
The Contact Details of the Avengers are rarely known: in the small-circulation professional publication Classic Airplane, the Avengers will reply when they see it.
The "Avenger" is undoubtedly the lone wolf, and he is Calvin Dexter.
Born in a slum in 1950, Calvin Dexter had a rather limited formal education, but he was intelligent and capable. At the age of eighteen, he signed up for the army, took the initiative to apply to go to Vietnam, and became a "tunnel rat" who died nine times.
For six years, although the order of personnel changed frequently, the tunnel rats had been engaged in the dirtiest, most dangerous, and terrible tasks of the Vietnam War, yet their missions were so secretive and so few in number that people today, even Americans, had almost never heard of them.
During the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese waged guerrilla warfare in the jungle, digging more than three hundred kilometers of tunnels. There are warehouses, conference rooms, dormitories, repair workshops, canteens, and even hospitals in the tunnels. The Americans tried their best to deal with the Viet Cong hidden in the dark tunnels, and finally found that there was only one way.
The only way to go down, put on monogames, take pistols, daggers, and flashlights, and go deep into the dark, stinky, airless, mapless, uncertain future, trap-ridden, deadly, eerie, eerie, exitless, narrow passages to kill the Viet Cong waiting in their lair.
Those who can perform this kind of task are lonely people who are calm and self-controlling, and they usually perform tasks together in pairs, calling themselves "tunnel rats". The Tunnel Rats are the only units to receive the Purple Heart Medal (awarded to soldiers wounded in battle).
On the title page of the novel, the author says that the book is dedicated to the "authentic rats" and that "I will never be able to do what you have done", which shows how terrible the task is.
Calvin Dexter retired from the military and chose to go to college and get a degree. After graduating from law school, he worked in the pro bono department of a law firm, litigating the poor and the weak for free. He benefited from this experience, and his clients included perjury masters, genius hackers, etc., which were powerful weapons for him to become an "avenger" in the future.
He married Angela and had a daughter, Amanda Joan, his only daughter. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Joan, beautiful and charming, was lured by members of the Spanish gang and ran away from home and never returned. Forced into prostitution and poisoning, she was beaten to death and thrown into a ditch when she was not yet eighteen.
Calvin Dexter managed to get the names of the gang leaders and ambushed them in the streets. When he returned to New York, he learned that his wife, Angela, had committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills because she could not bear the pain of losing her daughter.
Calvin Dexter was devastated and finally made two decisions. One is to resign, and the other is to become an "avenger" from now on.
He settled in a quiet town called Pennington, New Jersey, and bought a small office and hung up the sign of a law firm. He was only intermittently out of business, and customers and neighbors thought he was on vacation to go fishing.
Over the course of seven years, he hung a "vacation out" sign on his office door three times and went to the ends of the earth to hunt down a murderer and bring him back for trial. On all three occasions he alerted the federal judiciary, but he managed to slip away without revealing his identity.
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Let's talk about another main thread: the victims and the stories that emanate.
The victim, Ricky Corenso, was the "Proud Son of Heaven", his father Adrian Colenso was a university mathematics professor, his mother was Anne Edmund, and his grandfather was billionaire Steve Edmund: a Canadian pilot who survived World War II and whose family has been engaged in mining.
Growing up in a safe, loving family, Ricky was admitted to Harvard University after graduating from high school in 1994 and enrolled the following fall. That winter, he saw on television that ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the refugees were in a miserable condition, and he was determined to participate in the rescue, and his parents reluctantly agreed.
Ricky then flew to Bosnia and Herzegovina and spent four months at a small non-governmental charity, helping distribute relief supplies until he was killed in May 1995.
Ricky's grandfather, Steve Edmund, had only one only daughter, Annie, who loved his daughter, son-in-law, and only grandson, Ricky. When he received a call from his daughter, he immediately set out to investigate the disappearance of his grandson.
Steve Edmund flew to London to meet with the head of Hazard Management. The company's employees, mostly Special Forces veterans, specialize in three main types of business: property protection, personnel protection, and "tracking and bringing back."
Steve Edmund demanded, "Go find my grandson." There is no cap on the honorarium. The person in charge of this task is known internally as a "private investigator."
After much search, private investigators wrote a report to Steve Edmund stating: "I speculate that they inadvertently sailed into a dangerous area and were murdered by unidentified people. It may well be a bunch of Serbian paramilitary criminals wandering around. But without evidence, identification, confessions or court testimony, it is not possible to make charges at this time. ”
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Then there's the murderer: Zoran Gillic.
Born in Yugoslavia, Zoran Gilic revealed his evil and violent nature from an early age, and by 1989 he had become Milosevic's right-hand man.
Among these hardcore assistants was Zoran Gillic. He became the dictator's personal assistant and hired killer. Milosevic's rewards will never be cash, but exclusive rights, especially the privileges of lucrative illegal industries, coupled with official assurances that they will never go into trouble. The tyrant's cronies can rob, torture, rape, and kill people, and the local police will never let them. Milesevic established a criminal and corrupt group under the banner of a patriotic group that blinded Serbs and Politicians in Western Europe for several years.
Gillic formed a paramilitary group, the Zoran Wolf Pack, which was small in number and full of rogue villains who had participated in burning and looting. They lacked a radio operator, and Milan Rayek, a university student who had served as a signal soldier, was recruited and witnessed Riggy's murder on May 14.
The next day Milan Rayek was leaving, and Gillic", "not liking the boy who was both stupid and fussy", let him go, but warned him not to reveal anything.
In 2001 Milosevic was arrested and handed over to the International Court of Justice in The Hague
Milan Rayek can't forget Ricci's murder, he has repeated nightmares, and psychotherapy has no effect. Later, he went to church with his mother for Mass, found peace in religion, and became a trainee monk.
Soon, a turning point came when Milan Rayek developed rectal cancer and had less than a year left to live. At this point, Milosevic stepped down and Zoran Dillic disappeared. Milan Rayek wrote to the private investigator, saying: "I have changed my mind. I'm ready to testify. ”
Details of Ricky's murder were detailed in Milan Rayek's statement, and Dilic's methods were extremely cruel.
Private investigators then found the pit where Riki was killed, found the bones of Riki and the others, and after DNA comparison, confirmed Riki's identity.
At Ricky's funeral, 81-year-old Steve Edmund made up his mind to capture Ricky's killer. He didn't let his daughter and son-in-law read the private investigator's report, let alone Milan Rayek's testimony.
During the Milosevic era the country had 500 billion banknotes
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The evidence is conclusive, and what needs to be done is to extradite Zoran Gillic to the United States for trial. Steve Edmund enlisted the help of Senator Peter Lucas, who forged a deep friendship in World War II.
Peter Lucas is an old politician who knows he has to go down the upper line.
It is useless to go to the head of the department. The entire middle-level civil servants are always used to kicking the ball to another department. The work is always someone else's. Only work that is placed directly from the top will have a result.
Peter Lucas knows that ministers don't want to hear questions and questions, they prefer direct answers and solutions. How does he do it? This paragraph cannot be skipped, and "professionals" should study hard.
First, he first asked a group of college graduates to investigate the extradition, and learned that in the 1986 Act, if the sovereign state refused or dragged its feet not to extradite the murderer of the American to the United States, the United States had the right to send agents to catch the murderer and bring him back to the United States, which was called "hijacking".
He then asked his writing team to rewrite the private investigator's detailed report into pages; to compress Milan Rayek's testimony into two sheets of paper, with highlighter over the most horrific passages, and to attach a handwritten letter of his to a document that was easy for ministers to read.
That's what Capitol Hill taught him, and the simpler and more concise the documents he gets to the top, the better.
When the preparations were in place, he went to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. The two ministers listened to his report, read and forwarded the documents to the relevant departments for processing.
Since the tasks are assigned at the highest level, the inventory is thorough. Unfortunately, all the departments only found out what had happened sixteen months before the senator inquired, and Zoran Gillic had disappeared.
Twenty-six people in the various intelligence agencies of the United States had seen a request to trace The whereabouts of Gillic, and all of them replied that they did not know where Zoran Gillic was. One of them lied.
FBI Deputy Director Colin Fleming has a deep-seated sense of law, order, and justice, and although it is impossible to trace Zoran Gillic, he learns about the "Avengers" from retired officials and relays them to Senator Lucas.
So, when Dexter saw in Classic Airplane, "Recruit the Avengers." There is no upper limit to remuneration. Interested in requesting a call. With this notice, he dialed the phone left by Steve Edmund.
Steve Edmund did not hesitate to reveal his identity and explain in five sentences what happened to his grandson. The Avenger thanked him and hung up the phone.
Dexter quickly confirmed Steve Edmund's identity and the fact that his grandson had been killed, and he called Steve Edmund again on the condition that a substantial amount of money for the operation, an advance payment, and a bonus for The successful delivery of Gillic to the United States judiciary would be exempted from payment if the operation failed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" data-track="156" > Needle in a haystack </h1>
Where did Zoran Gillic hide? He was a wise man, fluent in German and English, and well aware that Milosevic would sooner or later fall. He had transferred all of his not less than half a billion dollars abroad, and he had long since gone before Milosevic was arrested.
He didn't take anything with him, nor did he take anyone with him, except his absolutely loyal personal bodyguard, a burly giant named Kurachi. Within a week, he had settled in his new nest, where he had spent a year ready for his new life.
Finding Zoran Gillic is like finding a needle in a haystack, he never gives interviews, doesn't like to take pictures, and leaves almost no trace.
He seems to have erased every record of him before leaving, police records, court records, state television, news media, and so on. Family, school classmates, former colleagues, no one wanted to talk about him, were all warned.
Dexter gets a recent photo of Tylitch, and through the photo's information, Dexter deduces that Dilich is standing at an airport in the United Arab Emirates. After investigation, Dexter locked a plane under the name of Zeta.
When a person changes his entire identity, he often cannot stand the temptation to retain a tiny detail as a nostalgia for a bygone time. ZEM is exactly the first three letters of Zemun, the Zemn district of Belgrade, where Zoran Gillich grew up. Zeta, on the other hand, is the greek and Spanish word for the letter Z.
With the help of a genius hacker, Dexter obtained information about the plane's captain: the captain was a Yugoslav who lived about eighty kilometers east of the city of St. Maarten.
The Republic of Saint-Martin is located in the west of Venezuela, formerly known as Spanish Guiana. Ruled by a brutal military dictator, this small, poor, backward, smoky country is a place where money can buy all protection. At this point, The nest of Gilich is about to come out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="06" data-track="162" > hijacked</h1>
The Avengers' plan was targeted by the CIA's Paul DeFro from the start.
Paul DeFro is on a secret mission, the Peregrine Falcon Project, and he needs to use Zoran Gillic to capture bin Laden.
Before leaving Belgrade, Zoran Gillic stole fifteen kilograms of uranium-235 samples; six months earlier, at the behest of Russian arms dealers, Zoran Gillic had handed over his samples and documents proving that he possessed the fifteen kilograms of uranium, and bin Laden had spoken to trade them.
If Gillic panicked when he thought someone was after him and cancelled the deal, De Flo could not afford it. This Avenger must be stopped, or even "terminated." Do great good and tolerate small evil.
It turned out that the demon of Gillic had already been granted political asylum. Paul De Flore asked second-in-command Kevin McBride to immediately tell Colonel Moreno, the head of the secret police at San Martin, every piece of information and details he had obtained about the Avengers, and Molenobu went down to hunt down the Avengers.
The "Avenger" can be described as "a strong enemy in front and a pursuing soldier in the back." Entering St. Martin is already difficult, and entering The Home of Dilich is an even more "impossible task".
The Avengers are not the Avengers and have no superpowers
Focusing on Gillic's old lair, it is simply an iron wall, and there is no way to start.
At the end of San Martin is El Pento, the home of Gillich on a triangular peninsula in El Pento.
Nature is insane, the peninsula juts out from the land to the sea, and on one side of the land is a continuous mountain range, with only one dirt road crossing a single mountain pass leading to the tip of the peninsula. At both ends of the sea are cliffs, and no one can bypass the coast at either end to enter the peninsula from the jungle inland.
On the land side, the hills rose slowly from the plain to a height of three hundred meters, and the slopes were covered with dense vegetation, and Calvin Dexter hid in the mountains for several days to observe.
The safety and self-sufficiency on this peninsula below the steep slope impressed Dexter. It's the perfect combination of nature, ingenuity and money.
In addition to the unique geographical environment of the manor, there are almost impeccable security measures.
The manor was designed and secured by Major Van Lensburg, who was proud to create two major features: first, it was almost a completely self-sufficient farming paradise; and second, it was a fortress that could withstand foreign invasions.
Van Lensburg was a ruthless man, once the head of the labour camp in the Caprivi Valley, and never a single prisoner escaped.
"So do you know what means I use?" mine? No. searchlight? No. The two loops of barbed wire, buried six feet deep in the ground, were topped by sharp tribulus terrestris, and between the barbed wire were beasts. There were crocodiles in the pool, lions on the grass, and all of them came in and out through a tunnel. I like the natural composition. ”
The entire peninsula has a nearly two-kilometer water exclusion zone, and only occasional delivery ships are allowed to enter. The sea-scanning radar is disguised as a television antenna, and one of the two patrol boats is at sea at any time. The estate slaughters livestock every week, and fresh scraps such as pigs, cattle, sheep, deer and other fresh scraps are thrown into the sea with blood, and the ocean here is frequently moved by sharks, so it is impossible to dive underwater.
The estate is divided into private airports, farms, villages where workers live, and main houses, with clear partitions and barbed wire barriers. The peninsula forms a steep slope on the coastal side, and the slope is not long with grass. Climbing down a steep slope during the day will be found, and even if you climb in at night, it is still outside the barbed wire, three kilometers away from the main house, so it is impossible to climb over the mountain to enter.
The house had a high protective wall, and snipers close to the ground could not let a bullet go over the wall to hit people on the terrace.
The source of the manor is a stream from the rainforest on the mountain, which houses piranhas; there are sharp iron bars buried in the water near the cliff edge, so it is impossible to swim and dive.
Twelve ferocious German Shepherds were released at night, and strangers were torn apart by vicious dogs.
There were about twelve hundred workers, all convicts imprisoned for life in Saint-Martin, and each night the farmkeeper selected the labour force needed for the next day and checked their identities one by one before entering the farm; the staff of the house lived there and were not allowed to move around; the guards were carefully selected so that it was impossible to enter pretending to be employees.
With such geography and such tight security, Gillic believed that "this fortress is probably the safest place on earth"; Major Van Lensburg believed that a large-scale military operation could only invade, and that a mercenary could not infiltrate at all, and even if he came, he would not be able to get out alive.
However, Dexter single-handedly accomplished this "impossible task". This is drama meat, and I don't spoil it. In simple terms, Dexter forged multiple identities into St. Martin, each carrying out a different plan; he forged his death to let his opponents down their guard; he laid out a deception to get Killich to take the bait, and eventually hijacked Killic and flew back to the United States.
"The package you wanted from Belgrade has landed at Key West, Florida Airport."
In my opinion, the most fascinating thing about Forsyth's novel is the extremely realistic detail, after all, he has been a professional spy for MI6 for more than two decades, and has an incomparable degree of restoration to the real spy world.
It is said that Before writing a novel, Forsyth usually had nine months to prepare, during which he would travel long distances to ensure the accuracy of what he wrote, and then spend two or three months to write the whole novel in one sitting.
In an interview with the media, Forsyth revealed that he would submit the written manuscript to MI6 to check whether he leaked sensitive details, and MI6 would annotate and annotate individual paragraphs of the manuscript. If the content is too sensitive, MI6 will ask Forsyth to terminate the depiction in case he goes too far.
Ma Boyong once described Forsyth as follows: "This great master's writing style is extremely calm and concise, no matter what he describes, he does not move, does not drag mud and water, and has no petty bourgeois moans and feelings, just like a real spy." ”
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