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London, UK – 1 December 1991
1. STILL of British author, Fredrick Forsyth, smoking cigarette
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ARCHIVE – Bissau, Guinea-Bissau – 4 March 2009
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Frederick Forsyth, British author:
"Well I flew down, actually through Sunday night into Monday morning, to do some research for the next novel. I knew nothing about assassinations but it turned out when I got here I learned that assassination number one had taken place just before I took off from Lisbon airport and I was actually in my hotel here in the heart of Bissau, reading a novel because I couldn’t sleep, when I heard the second boom which was the assassination of the president. So I found myself, not the only journalist in town, but an ex-journalist with a regime change dumped in his lap
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Hertford, UK – 17 August 2006
3. STILL of British author, Frederick Forsyth, posing for photo
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Frankfurt, Germany – 8 October 2003
4. STILL of British author, Fredrick Forsyth displaying his book ‘Avenger’ at the Frankfurt Book Fair
STORYLINE:
Frederick Forsyth, the British author of “The Day of the Jackal" and other bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness, his literary agent said on Monday.
He was 86.
Jonathan Lloyd, his agent, said Forsyth died at home early on Monday surrounded by his family.
Born in Kent, in southern England, in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a foreign correspondent.
He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962, which provided inspiration for “The Day of the Jackal,” his bestselling political thriller about a professional assassin.
Published in 1971, the book propelled him into global fame.
It was made into a film in 1973 starring Edward Fox as the Jackal and more recently a television series starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch.
In 2015, Forsyth told the BBC that he had also worked for the British intelligence agency MI6 for many years, starting from when he covered a civil war in Nigeria in the 1960s.
Although Forsyth said he did other jobs for the agency, he said he was not paid for his services and “it was hard to say no” to officials seeking information.
“The zeitgeist was different,” he told the BBC. “The Cold War was very much on.”
He wrote more than 25 books including “The Afghan,” “The Kill List,” “The Dogs of War" and “The Fist of God" that have sold over 75 million copies, Lloyd said.
His publisher, Bill Scott-Kerr, said that “Revenge of Odessa,” a sequel to the 1974 book “The Odessa File" that Forsyth worked on with fellow thriller author Tony Kent, will be published in August.
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