The Veteran

Five Heart-Stopping Stories

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee, Bruce Boxleitner, Christopher Cazenove

From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth - best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File - comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.

Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in “The Veteran” (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in “The Art of the Matter” (also read by Macnee). The additional stories recount a persecution in 16th century Sienna (“The Miracle” - read by Christopher Cazenove), a mid-flight drug smuggling heist (“The Citizen” - also read by Macnee), and the lone survivor of Custer's Last Stand (“Whispering Wind” - read by Bruce Boxleitner). Mixing together the elements of great suspense - revenge, mystery, murder and deception - this collection is Forsyth at his best.

©2001 Frederick Forsyth (P)2001 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Masterful

Five brilliant short stories by the master, Frederic Forsyth. Highly recommended. Five stories are each completely different, but all have the Forsyth hallmarks of well-researched and gripping stories.

veteran

Good narration, five great stories from one of my favorite authors. Enjoyed very much. Recommend.

Wonderful Stories

Frederick Forsyth is a superior author and the narrators of these 5 stories were also superior. These stories were not short stories, as the total length was over 12 hours. As Mr. Forsyth has matured, his story telling just gets better and better.

I loved the twisty endings of the first 4. Spoiler Alert: I cried throughout the last story and it did not have the happy ending I would have liked, but it did have a twisty ending. Raising a child by a single mother is hard.
Don't remember first time I listened to this.
Second time was January 2026

Good fun

If only for the first perfect story this is well worth the credit. Recommended highly

Strong collection of stories

Really enjoyed this collection of shorter works by Forsyth. He proves once again why he's one of the great storytellers of our time.