![]() In 1972, Forsyth wrote The Odessa File, in which a reporter attempts to track down a network of ex-Nazis in modern Germany. In this novel, the Organisation de l'Arm�e Secr�te hires an assassin to kill Charles de Gaulle. His first full length novel, The Day Of the Jackal, was an international bestseller, and was later made into a movie with the same name. In 1970, he decided to write a novel, but to write it using similar research techniques as were used in journalism. In 1969, he wrote a book about the Biafran War called The Biafra Story. In 1968, he left the BBC and returned to Biafra as a freelancer. ![]() From July to September 1967, he covered the Biafran War between Biafra and Nigeria. In 1965, he joined the BBC and was assistant diplomatic correspondent. ![]() ![]() He then became a reporter, and spent three and a half years working at a small newspaper before joining Reuters in 1961. At the age of 19, he became one of the youngest pilots ever in the Royal Air Force, where he served until 1958. ![]() He later attended Granada University in Spain. He is best known for thrillers such as The Fist Of God.īorn in Ashford, Kent, Forsyth was educated at Tonbridge School. Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938) is a British author and occasional political commentator. ![]()
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