<P> In 1982, No Comebacks, a collection of ten short stories, was published . Some of these stories had been written earlier . Many were set in the Republic of Ireland where Forsyth was living at the time . One of them, There Are No Snakes in Ireland, won him a second Edgar Allan Poe Award, this time for best short story . </P> <P> The Fourth Protocol was published in 1984 and involves renegade elements within the Soviet Union attempting to plant a nuclear bomb near an American airbase in the UK, intending to influence the upcoming British elections and lead to the election of an anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-nuclear, pro-soviet Labour government . The 1987 adaptation starred Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine . Almost all of the political content was removed from the film . </P> <P> Forsyth's tenth book came in 1989 with The Negotiator, in which the American President's son is kidnapped and one man's job is to negotiate his release . </P> <P> Two years later, in 1991, The Deceiver was published . It includes four short stories reviewing the career of British secret agent Sam McCready . At the start of the novel, the Permanent Under - Secretary of State (PUSS) of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office requires the Chief of the SIS to push Sam into early retirement . The four stories are presented to a grievance committee in an attempt to allow Sam to stay on active duty with the SIS . </P>

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