![]() ![]() Not only does Major Martin speak fluent Arabic, but with his black hair and dark complexion, he can practically pass for an Arab. Major Mike Martin of the Special Air Service (SAS) is seconded to SIS to collaborate with the Kuwaiti resistance. Iraq subsequently invades Kuwait, leading the British and Americans to require top-level intelligence on the ground. ![]() He comes to discover the true reason only shortly before being assassinated by his paymasters, though his death is variously blamed by the media on the Mossad, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or any one of numerous other intelligence organisations. He believes that it is for launching satellites into space and assumes it could serve no military purpose for a few reasons: firstly, it cannot traverse from side to side, nor alter its angle of elevation or depression secondly, it would have to be completely disassembled and reassembled to change targets, and lastly, it could fire only once before being located and destroyed. ![]() Gerald Bull designs a supergun codenamed Project Babylon for Iraq. The story features the brothers Mike and Terry Martin who also appear in Forsyth's 2006 novel The Afghan.ĭr. The Fist of God is a 1994 suspense novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, with a fictitious retelling of the Iraqi Project Babylon and the resulting " supergun".įeaturing a story set during the Persian Gulf War, the novel details an Allied effort to find the suspected Iraqi nuclear weapon. ![]()
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