Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth is the author of nine bestselling novels: “The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil’s Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God” and" Icon."
He became the youngest pilot of the Royal Airforce, joining at the age of 19. He then became a journalist and worked for Reuters in several European capitals. His books have been sold over 35 million times worldwide.
He lives outside London.
Frederick Forsyth's Books
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Day of the Jackal
The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world’s most heavily guarded man.
One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so s…
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recommends Day of the Jackal
One of the best international thrillers ever written.
Charles Todd recommends Day of the Jackal
The plotting of that novel was impressive, and taught me more about plot vs. plotting than 10 years of experience. To bring such a story to life, even when you know De Gaulle wasn’t assassinated, showed the hand of a master.
Josh Conviser recommends Day of the Jackal
One of the first thrillers I read. No one does it better!
Child Lee recommends Day of the Jackal
‘Book Zero’ in terms of recent thriller evolution.
Tom Clancy recommends Day of the Jackal
One of my favorite books.
Gayle Lynds recommends Day of the Jackal
This ground-breaking novel has captured the imaginations of readers for decades, and with good reason. It’s a paragon of suspense, character development, and fascinating period detail. If you want to read just one book about political France in the 1960s, just one book about a lone assassin, just one book that is at the same time beautifully written, this is the book for you.
Joseph Finder recommends Day of the Jackal
One of the books that first inspired me to write espionage fiction, and one I return to again and again. I think I’ve gone through three paperback copies already. Forsyth is no great stylist, but that’s not a disadvantage here: it reads like a documentary in novel form. Plausible, realistic, authoritative, really exciting. Wonderfully executed. A classic.
Thomas Greanias recommends The Odessa File
Conspiracy thrillers don’t get any better than this, especially when the secret society in question is so particularly nasty, brutish and real: the SS.
Hank Phillippi Ryan recommends Day of the Jackal
Absolutely not to be missed. Terrific yarn—suspenseful, tense, and clever! And you wind up rooting for the bad guy! How often does that happen?
