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The Outsider
A work of Non-fiction by Frederick Forsyth
Subgenres:
- Memoir,
- Espionage,
- Military History
This book is for you if you're into...
- Real-life spy stories with wild international escapades
- Firsthand accounts of brushes with arms dealers and secret police
- Biographies of thriller writers who lived the stories they tell
From the grand master of international suspense comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.
For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from The Day of the Jackal to The Odessa File and The Fox. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don't know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been from his own life.
He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian Civil War, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and has himself been accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent, well, her actions were a bit more . . . intimate. And that's just for starters.
Nominated for the Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work of 2015.
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