Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal

Autore di romanzi come “Il giorno dello sciacallo” e “Dossier Odessa”

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

Britischer Schriftsteller Frederick Forsyth ist tot

British novelist and former MI6 agent died after a brief illness