The Fourth Protocol (film) The Fourth Protocol (film) The Fourth Protocol is a 1987 British Cold War spy film featuring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan, based on the novel "The Fourth Protocol" by Frederick Forsyth. In 1968, an East-West agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of its clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target. MI5 officer John Preston (Michael Caine) breaks into the residence of British government official George Berenson (Anton Rodgers) on New Year's Eve and finds a number of top secret NATO files that should not have been there. He reports his
Icon (novel) and biological connection to Greek royals and Russian Romanovs. He agrees to take up the post and assumes the throne in early 2000. The novel can be seen as a continuation of Forsyth's previous novel, "The Fist of God"; one of the minor characters in "Icon", a banker named Nathanson, is described as the father of a pilot who was shot down in the closing hours of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, an event that occurs in "Fist". Irvine had previously appeared in "The Devil's Alternative" and "The Fourth Protocol". In 2005 a film loosely based on the book was