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Frederick Forsyth, Author of Thrillers Made Into Movies Like ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ Dies at 86
'The Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth has died at 86.
Frederick Forsyth, a British author of thrillers who frequently made the bestseller lists, sold 70 million books and saw his novels “ The Day of the Jackal,” “The Odessa File” and “The Dogs of War,” among others, adapted into films, died on Monday at his home in Jordans, England. “The Dogs of War” was adapted into the 1980 film starring Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger as members of a small, international unit of mercenaries privately hired to depose the president of the fictional African Republic of Zangaro so a British tycoon can mine a huge platinum deposit there. What he saw of this brutal and cynical conflict made it difficult for him to toe the editorial line of the BBC’s coverage so he resigned and turned freelance, later emerging to publish his highly controversial first book, the nonfiction work “The Biafra Story.”
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