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Frederick Forsyth Presents

8.0 / 10
1989
1 season
6 episodes
Drama

Frederick Forsyth, the celebrated novelist behind classics like The Day of the Jackal and The Negotiator, presents six original and gripping spy thrillers written solely for the small screen.

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  • Ep 1

    1.A Casualty of War

    02-12-198997m

    Libya is preparing to ship arms to the Provisional IRA, and McCready sends Tom Rowse, a former SAS officer who is now a novelist, to Libya under the cover of researching a book. Ro...

  • Ep 2

    2.Just Another Secret

    09-12-198980m

    An American intelligence agent investigates the sudden disappearance of a colleague who was stationed in East Berlin. He finds a conspiracy to murder a Soviet politician.

  • Ep 3

    3.Pride and Extreme Prejudice

    16-12-198997m

    A Soviet general offers the SIS important military documents, and a meeting is set up in East Germany, with McCready in charge of the operation.

  • Ep 4

    4.A Little Piece of Sunshine

    17-11-199096m

    Sunshine, an island in the British West Indies, is about to become independent, but shortly before the handover, in the middle of a bitterly fought presidential election campaign,...

  • Ep 5

    5.Death Has a Bad Reputation

    24-11-1990

    The French government expels dozens of Soviet diplomats, and Rodimstev, head of the KGB, forms an alliance with Carlos the Jackal to punish France. Sam McCready works to hinder the...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Price of the Bride

    08-12-1990

    While on a Soviet Military Intelligence visit to Britain, a Russian contacts the CIA station in London, wishing to defect to the US, claiming to be Colonel Pyotr Orlov of the KGB....

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