Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has died after a brief illness at the age of 86.

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers

Best-selling thriller novelist died from brief illness, his agent announces

Britischer Schriftsteller Frederick Forsyth ist tot

British novelist and former MI6 agent died after a brief illness