The Fist of God: A Novel Kindle Edition

The characters and plot/subplots (especially the core five Baghdad boys) were all cunningly designed and seamlessly woven into an enthralling eloquent fictional thriller concerning Iraq's unprovoked invasion into Kuwait. Suspense on steroids. (Likewise, highly recommend present day author Jack Slater.)

I just recently read this book, and even though it is many years old and the setting is the first gulf war, it is suspenseful and full of military action. There is a large cast of characters that takes a bit of time to get to know, and perhaps a couple of events not central to the plot that seemed improbable and I didn’t care for, but I’m not going to give anything away by dropping spoilers. On balance this was very well written, mostly believable, and provided an in depth and up close, personal, gritty look at war on the ground. There was a seemless blend of the spy craft and the military action. Not quite 5 stars, but this is one of the better books in the genre and I recommend this to all fans of military and spy novels.

I'm biased. Forsyth is my favorite writer, and he does not disappoint in this fictionalized version of the first Iraqi war. He may have written fiction here, but he uses many of the real-life people who conducted the war. And he must have had wonderful inside information, because his story is "too real to not believe." So, we'll never know if Sadam really had a giant cannon that could fire a nuclear shell into the gathering American soldiers who were about to destroy his scheme to take Kuwait. That may be the fiction part, but the behind-the-scenes spying and scheming is just too good to not be true. Whatever, Forsyth never disappoints, and this thriller will keep you page-turning until the conclusion. When God decided He needed to put a novelist on this Earth to show us how it's supposed to be done, He gave us Forsyth. Thank God!!!

The Fist of God will keep you engaged to the very end. Although trite, the phrase "couldn't put down" , is appropriate here as this action novel will keep espionage as well as military action fans entertained from start to finish. Forsyth does his usual best with well researched and accurate storytelling of a first rate action novel. All fans of Forsyth will highly enjoy this story. Very much recommended.

Non stop action, I couldn't put it down. A one excellent book. Need more books of Frederick Forsyth in my library.

This is a technothriller. If you are looking for Great Literature, look elsewhere, that isn't the point here.Although the technical stuff gets repeated a bit, the story itself and especially the climax is so exciting that reading the same explanation twice fades into insignificance.And, besides, how often do you get to read a novel carefully embedded in the first Gulf War -- the one liberating Kuwait from the monster, Saddam?And done so well it is hard to be sure which bits are true and which bits are not.

Not Forsythes best, but it moves quickly and is a nice remembrance of the Gulf War. A good and timely read

Well, it could've happened that way. The author takes gulf war one and there is a plan by Saddam to gather a nuke before the coalition forces invade Iraq. It also gives some insight into the resistance by some Kuwaiti leaders while being occupied by Iraq. Written in the mid nineties, it is somewhat plausible, but the most interesting aspect of the book is it seems to be amazingly prophetic about what would happen to Iraq and the entire mid-east if Saddam was eliminated, and it gives a very likely explanation why we did not go forward and take him out. Clearly we had the means and opportunity. At the time most Americans wondered why we left him in place. (Unfortunately now we know what could happen.) I enjoyed the characters and the story and I highly recommend the read.