![]() ![]() But The Fox is a novel in disguise - an old-fashioned spy tale underneath the barest references to technology. “It was all luck, luck, luck for me,” he says.įifty-six years on, The Fox follows a young hacker the British use to spy on enemy nations. A hit film followed, as did 20 more books and a style that influenced writers for decades. The book focused on spy-craft, intelligence and counter-intelligence, and had a mystery that lasted until the end. The Day of the Jackal, didn’t just change Forsyth’s fortunes it altered the template of the espionage thriller. He based his first story on his time as a 23-year-old rookie in France, covering the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle in 1962. Author Frederick Forsyth, now 80, is out with a new novel, about the world of cyber espionage and its real-world repercussions.(Gill Shaw) “People said ‘Rob a bank if you like don’t write a book’,” he recalls. Forsyth, broke from being a news correspondent in West Africa, thought it might help to write a novel. The world was a different place when Frederick Forsyth wrote his first novel. ![]()
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