Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth was born in 1938 in Ashford, Kent, England. He became one of the youngest jet pilots in the Royal Air Force at nineteen, then turned to journalism, working as a Reuters correspondent in Paris and later as a BBC reporter in Nigeria during the Biafran War. His experiences covering real-world intrigue and conflict gave him the documentary instinct and eye for procedural detail that would define his fiction. When he returned from Biafra, broke and disillusioned, he wrote The Day of the Jackal in thirty-five days. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Day of the Jackal.