Forsyth, who sold 75 million books, is remembered as "one of the world's greatest thriller writers".

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