Book, November 1st, 2001
FIVE YEARS AGO, FREDERICK FORSYTH FIGURED HE WAS OUT OF WORK. The author of The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War and The Fourth Protocol thought he just might have to give up writing thrillers. The Cold War was over, and he couldn't think of any more espionage subjects he could tackle.
Besides, Forsyth wanted to see if he was a bit more versatile than someone who simply wrote about, as he puts it now, "mercenaries, special forces, master spies and agents." So he wrote The Phantom of Manhattan, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera originally suggested to him by Andrew Lloy...
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