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It’s a dangerous world in which we live in nowadays, what with so many terrorist threats popping up all over the place. Especially after September 11 2001 when the Twin Towers collapsed, it was then when the world, especially America, first started combating terrorism on such a large scale. However, such threats of terrorism existed long before 2001, and Geoffrey Archer is one of the many authors who decided to play around with this idea in several of his books, one of which would be Fire Hawk.

Published back in 1998, the story of Fire Hawk primarily revolves around the idea of biological warfare, specifically anthrax powder. It starts of when Sam Packer, a British spy and a recurring character in Archer’s future books, is undercover in Iraq and discovers that terrorists have gotten their hands on an anthrax bomb and intend to make use of it outside of Iraq. Considering how just a few grams of the powder could potentially kill a few thousand people in a busy subway station, it’s then a race against time for Packer and the other intelligence agencies, along with the UN, to uncover the entire plot and stop a terrorist attacks that would have unthinkable consequences.

I won’t go into any more details about the plot here, since it would just spoil the story for most. However, there are a fair amount of twists and turns throughout the book that will undoubtedly leave you wanting to keep on fliping to the next page. Archer somehow manages to keep the level of excitement pretty high throughout the entire book with so many things going on at once, yet everything is connected to one another in the end. However, the problem with this book for me is that the excitement level is constantly high, which means that there isn’t even really much of a climax, even though the plot calls for an action packed one. In the end, the climax is more or less just a few sentences long which is a let down. Still, that far from makes this a bad book, because one will undoubtedly enjoy reading through the entire book since it is constantly filled with lots of action all the time.

Fire Hawk is the first of Geoffrey Archer’s work that I’ve read thus far, and from the looks of it I’ll be trying to get my hands on his other books to read as well. In my opinion, he’s a pretty great thriller writer. His plots also fuse fact and fiction together to produce a really intriguing plot of what “if” this happened in real life. While many other authors attempt to do the same thing by mixing elements of fact and fiction into the same plot, not many are able to do it as well as Geoffrey Archer.

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