The Fourth Protocol
by Frederick Forsythliterary work· published 1984
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The Fourth Protocol is a thriller novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, published in August 1984. The title refers to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which (at least in the world of the novel) contained four secret protocols. The fourth of these 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 James Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant and inadvertently discovers stolen top secret documents.
Adaptations (1)
The Fourth Protocol was adapted into a 1987 film.
The Fourth Protocol1987 · film · 119 min · dir. John Mackenzie · IMDb ↗Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
