The Fourth Protocol (video game) information you have gathered in the previous two parts, you must work out how to defuse the device. This part of the trilogy requires textual input, and plays differently depending on the version of the game. The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol is an interactive fiction computer game based on Frederick Forsyth's 1984 spy novel "The Fourth Protocol". The detective-style gameplay resembles contemporary menu-driven adventures such as "The Vera Cruz Affair", and later titles such as "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Floor 13". The game was released in by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, a subsidiary of the publishing house Hutchinson.
The Deceiver (novel) for British television in 1989 and 1990. McCready was played by British actor Alan Howard. Similar to John Le Carre, Forsyth's novels often depict a schism within the British espionage community (and within the British government as a whole), between those officers who favour a conciliatory, subservient relationship with the better resourced American C.I.A., and those who favour a more independent approach. Sam McCready definitely falls into the latter camp. Much like MI-5's Brian Harcourt-Smith in The Fourth Protocol, the S.I.S. bureaucrat who wants a very effective but older operative like McCready sent out to pasture for biased, stupid reasons