He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.

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

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