British writer Frederick Forsyth died on Monday, June 9, after a short suffering, surrounded by family, his literary agents announced on Monday.
Frederick Forsyth/Photo: X.
Forsyth, 86 years old, was known for his novels like “thriller”, such as “Jackal Day”“Odessa file“,”The dogs of the war ”, “The devil’s alternative“, “The fourth protocol“Or”The negotiator ”writes Agerpres.
His 25 books have been sold in 75 million copies worldwide.
Former pilot, investigative journalist, correspondent for Reuters and BBC, informant for the British Foreign Intelligence Service MI6, he recorded in his memoirs: “I have never been going to be a writer“It is considered a combination of Ernest Hemingway and John Le Carre.
One of his famous novels, the day of the jackal, inspired by his reporter experience in Paris, was written in just 35 days and reports a plot for the assassination of the President of France, General Charles de Gaulle. The character of the lone assassin had such a great impact that the famous Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was nicknamed “Carlos the jelly“.
The writer was born on August 25, 1938 in Ashford, Kent. In 1958, he engaged as a local journalist at the newspaper Eastern Daily Press. Three years later, he joined Reuters, according to TVR.
At Tonbridge School, Forsyth had noticed mainly in foreign languages. He spoke fluent French, German, Spanish and Russia, thus being an innate press correspondent.
Sent to Paris, Forsyth has reported several events related to assassination attempts on the President of France, Charles de Gaulle, orchestrated by the members of the Secret Army Organization (OAS).
This group of former military was deeply dissatisfied with Gaulle’s decision to give independence to Algeria, after many of their comrades had died against the Algerian nationalists.
Forsyth described Oas as “white and neo-fascist colonists.”
Forsyth joined the BBC in 1965, and two years later, was sent to Nigeria to relate to the civil war erupted after the secession of the Southeast Biafra region.
When the conflict has been extended far beyond expectations, Forsyth asked permission to stay and continue to cover it. According to his autobiography, the BBC answered: “It is not our policy to cover this war. “
“I felt the smell of news handling,“He said. “And I do not like the handling of the news.”
He resigned and continued to relate about war as a freelancer journalist for another two years.
All these “job tricks” were to be integrated into a novel about an assassination attempt on President of Gaulle, The Day of the Jackal (Șacalului Day), which he wrote in a studio, in an old typewriter, in just 35 days.
He spent months trying to publish him, but he was hit by a long string of refusals.
“First of all, Gaulle was still alive,” “ he said, “So readers already knew that a fictional assassination plot placed in 1963 could not be successful.”
Finally, an publisher agreed to risk a low circulation, and the sales of the book – described at one point as “a manual of murder” – exploded, first in the UK, then in the United States.
At the end of the 1980s, Forsyth broke up with his first wife, the former Carole Cunningham model, and was photographed with actress Faye Dunaway.
Only, Eurosceptic, he had difficulty in difficulty in this program-after demonstrating that, despite his denial, he once signed a document agreeing with the transfer of the Golden Reserve of the Kingdom to Frankfurt.
After turning 70, he began to slow down the pace at which he wrote.
The Cobra (Cobra), published in 2010, marked the return of some characters from Avenger.
In 2013, Forsyth launched The Kill List (List of Death), an alert story around a Muslim fan called “preacher”, whose online videos encouraged young Muslims to commit a series of crimes.
All the books wrote them at the typewriter and refused to use the internet for documentation.
