#The fox in the forest book manual#

What is with people's predilection towards stereotyping and misrepresenting people suffering from autism? Everywhere you see in pop culture, people suffering from autism are depicted to be socially awkward but some kind of geniuses or savants, which is as far from reality. Instead the author has used a rather convenient plot device of the boy being autistic and having a sixth sense.

#The fox in the forest book manual#

While I do not expect detailed and boring manual about how hacking takes place at least the author could have made it sound interesting. And I use the 'magic' deliberately because though the book is about hacking, no explanation is ever given as to how exactly the boy hacks in to the most complex firewalls in the world.

The overarching plot can be at best described as genius boy waving his magic fingers to defeat all the enemies of the West using a computer. While I do not expect detailed and boring manual about how hacking takes place at least the author cou Worst Forsyth book ever written. this is Forsyth at his spellbinding best.' Daily Mail. 'The master of the modern espionage novel returns. 'Forsyth deserves his place among the thriller greats.' The Times Because what follows after that is unthinkable… Whatever happens he must not fall into the wrong hands. The Fox is a race-against-time thriller across continents to find and capture, or protect and save, an asset with the means to change the balance of world power. Most weapons you can control.īut what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn’t a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme? What if it’s an 18-year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind, who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe, who can manipulate that weaponry and turn it against the superpowers themselves? How valuable would he be? And what wouldn’t you do to get hold of him? But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn’t a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme? What if it’s an 18-year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind, who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe, who can manipulate that weap Most weapons do what you tell them.