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Revenge of Odessa

By: Frederick Forsyth, Tony Kent
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The master storyteller - author of The Day of the Jackal - returns, with his most explosive thriller yet.

The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning...

Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital. Three apparently unconnected events, three steps on the countdown to apocalypse.

When journalist and podcaster Georg Miller starts joining the dots between them, he finds himself the target of professional killers. His investigation soon reveals that his would-be assassins are from an organisation known as the Odessa, a menacing and powerful Nazi group intent on regaining power.

The Odessa has spread its poison from a covert compound in the Bavarian countryside all the way to the halls of the American Capitol. And now, as their campaign to destabilise the Western political system accelerates, Georg must stop the next attack, before it changes the course of history…

'I loved this book. Breakneck pace and an utterly gripping plot. I loved the characters, the twists and turns, the violence. I hardly had time to catch my breath.' Imran Mahmood

'Explosive, chilling and impossible to put down.' Adam Hamdy

'A twisting, up-to-the-minute thriller that effortlessly blends Forsyth's classic style with Kent's modern pace and punch.' Mason Cross

© Frederick Forsyth 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

 Crime Thrillers Espionage International Mystery & Crime Mystery Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Assassin War

Critic Reviews

Praise for Revenge of Odessa
Captures a real flavour of the groundbreaking original.
Cracking…like Forsyth’s best works, Revenge of Odessa, both entertains and unsettles.
Displays all of Forsyth's political prescience and reminds us how clever he was at forecasting our dangerous future.
Published in the shadow of Forsyth’s passing, this sequel to the classic, half-a-century-old blockbuster brings the story of the Odessa bang up to date. Drawing on contemporary narratives, Forsyth and Kent expertly weave tension, pace and suspense into a ticking clock thriller that scarcely lets up from the electrifying opening to the explosive finale. Outstanding.
The long-awaited sequel to...The Odessa File is every bit as dramatic as you'd expect.
I loved this book. Breakneck pace and an utterly gripping plot. I loved the characters, the twists and turns, the violence. I hardly had time to catch my breath.
Return of Odessa is a terrific swan song from the man who changed the course of an entire genre of popular fiction.
A grandmaster of thriller writing and one of its rising stars combine to deliver a blistering, all-too-plausible, tension-soaked tale that hits like a sniper’s bullet. Explosive, chilling, and impossible to put down.
A twisting, up-to-the-minute thriller that effortlessly blends Forsyth’s classic style with Kent’s modern pace and punch. Revenge of Odessa is a book for the fraught geopolitics of our times.
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*** may contain spoilers. I approached The Revenge of Odessa with genuine anticipation. As a long-time admirer of Frederick Forsyth, I expected the hallmarks that define his best work: meticulous research, plausibility grounded in real geopolitics, and a narrative that unfolds with cold, convincing logic. Unfortunately, this novel falls well short of that standard.

The story is riddled with implausibilities that strain credibility almost from the outset. A chance encounter with an Alzheimer’s patient conveniently unlocks crucial information, while a supposedly complex neo-Nazi conspiracy is identified and effectively unravelled in little more than ten pages. What should have been a slow-burn investigation instead feels rushed and careless.

At one point, the protagonists break into what appears to be a random building in a neo-Nazi “model village” training camp, only to conveniently discover neatly laid-out receipts for 3,000 kilograms of ammonium nitrate — an absurd level of narrative convenience that undermines any sense of realism. Equally unconvincing is the action itself: characters absorb multiple gunshot wounds yet continue functioning as if impervious, more akin to cartoon heroes than human beings.

Most disappointing of all is what the novel lacks. There are no meaningful plot twists, no sustained tension, and none of the forensic attention to detail that once made Forsyth’s thrillers feel chillingly authentic. The depth of research and intellectual rigor that characterised works like The Day of the Jackal or The Odessa File is noticeably absent.

For readers unfamiliar with Forsyth’s earlier novels, this may pass as a lightweight thriller. For fans who know what he is capable of, however, The Revenge of Odessa is a let-down. Regretfully, I can’t recommend it.

High Expectations - Thin Rewards.

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