Cronology

Chronology

Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938)

In 1947, he became one of the youngest pilots ever in the Royal Air Force, where he served until 1958.

He then became a reporter, and spent three and a half years working at a small newspaper before joining Reuters in 1961.

In 1965, he joined the BBC and was assistant diplomatic correspondent.

From July to September 1967, he covered the Biafran War between Biafra and Nigeria.

In 1968, he left the BBC and returned to Biafra as a freelancer.

In 1969, he wrote a book about the Biafran War called The Biafra Story.

In 1970, he decided to write a novel, but to write it using similar research techniques as were used in journalism. 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 this novel, the Organisation de l'Arm�e Secr�te hires an assassin to kill Charles de Gaulle.

In 1972, Forsyth wrote The Odessa File, in which a reporter attempts to track down a network of ex-Nazis in modern Germany.

In 1974, he wrote The Dogs of War.

In 1979, he wrote The Devil's Alternative, which was set in 1982 Russia.

In 1982, No Comebacks was published, which was a collection of approximately 10 short stories. Some of these stories had been written earlier.

The Fourth Protocol was published in 1984.

In 1989, he wrote The Negotiator, in which the President's son is kidnapped and one man's job is to negotiate the release.

In 1991, The Deceiver was published. It involved four separate short stories to review Agent Sam McCready's career.

In 1994, Forsyth published The Fist of God. This is a historical novel about the first Gulf War.

In 1996, he published Icon, about the rise of the fascists in Russia.

In 2001, The Veteran was published, another collection of short stories.

His latest book, Avenger, was published in September 2003, it is about a Canadian millionaire hiring an ex-Vietnam veteran to bring his grandson's killer to the US.

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