Pilot-rage from the RafThen reporter, undercover light on behalf of secret services of his majesty and finally bestsellers writer published in addition 70 million copies throughout the planet. It was undoubtedly a life adventurous that of Frederick Forsythdied today a 86 years After “a short illness” in his English residence, surrounded by the family: a life merged into the breathtaking intertwining of about twenty novels capable of nailing with theirs electrifying realism ranks of fans of the genre of the spy story.
It was his to give the news to the media of the United Kingdom literary agent Jonathan Lloydfrom the Curtis Brown. “We cry one of the largest Thriller writers of the world, “said Lloyd, anticipating the tenor of the messages of condolence followed in a close tour by figures of the world of British and international culture, by public personalities, by representatives of the institutions such as the show business. And of the royal house who had finally decorated it with the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Difficult awards to contest. And not only for the numbers who marked over the decades the success of Forsyth narrator (also reflected in film transpositions No less lucky). Recognition behind which one stands out human affair whose common thread was probably the talent to reveal secrets. The last of which referred to himself, with the direct and definitive admission – contained in oneautobiography published 10 years ago and named significantly ‘The outsider, my life in intrigue’ – on one’s own spent in the Secret Intelligence Servicethe legendary Mi6 British embodied in the cinema by the saga of 007: a bit like John Le Carré or Graham Greene before him.
The story without more omissis than a life path certainly uncommon, from birth in 1938 in the quiet Kent English at university in Spainuntil the adventure from Raf pilot (the youngest ever enrolled until then in the kingdom) or those from journalist Beyond the Berlin Wall and then of war envoy in the’Africa of the 60s. And finally to reincarnation as writersealed, starting from 1970by securities destined to make era such as ‘On the day of the jackal’, ‘Dossier Odessa’, ‘The mastiffs of the war’ or ‘The fourth protocol’.
A parable «Really worthy of James Bond»Also in his activities of reporterOf witnessOf Hound of conflicts and conspiraciesas he had to notice the time the Daily Telegraph. Starting from the youth years that saw him deal like investigative journalist of Complotto hatched by the OAS frag