The Veteran - Frederick Forsyth

A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy: a drug smuggling heist on an international flight where the Knock pit their wits against the smugglers; a brutal urban murder, where a brilliant OC decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling justice; an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, with a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of Old Masters – each story is a remarkable tour de force.

And above all here is a brilliant novella, ‘Whispering Wind*, which begins with the single survivor of Custer’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn and ends in a savage present-day manhunt in the wild lands of Montana.