The Fourth Protocol The Fourth Protocol The Fourth Protocol is a novel written by Frederick Forsyth and published in August 1984. The title refers to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which (at least in the world of the novel) contained four secret protocols. The fourth of the protocols was meant to prohibit non-conventional deliveries of nuclear weapons, i.e. by means other than being dropped from aircraft or carried on ballistic missiles. This included postal delivery or being assembled in secret, close to the target, before being detonated. On New Year's Eve 1986, professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior
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