Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Pilot, Author, Spy - September 15, 2015

The Outsider:  My Life in Intrigue  by Frederick Forsyth
Pub. Date - October 6, 2015
5 stars

The Outsider by Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth is a bestselling author of international suspense novels but his own life as been just as exciting.  Although I have not read his novels, I can bet that this is just as fast-paced.  He was a precocious teenager who received his pilot's license early and became the youngest RAF.  He worked as the sole journalist in East Germany at time when tensions were very high.  He was in the midst of a war in Nigeria.  I found this absolutely compelling and I just can't imagine the life he has lived so far.  He is also very funny and had a great sense of humor about some of the situations that he found himself in.  I enjoyed reading this and found myself so involved in his story that I could not put it down.  I received this book from Penguin's First to Read program in exchange for an honest review. 

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