Friedrich Forseth, British author of The day of Ibn Awi His literary agent said on Monday that the best -selling excitement died after a short illness. It was 86.
Jonathan Lloyd, his agent, said Forseth died at home early in the two surrounded by his family.
“We are sad about the death of one of the greatest excitement book in the world,” Lloyd said.
Forseth worked as a royal air force pilot before becoming a foreign and novelist correspondent. In 2015, the BBC was told that he was an informant of the British Intelligence Agency MI6 for many years, starting with this when he covered a civil war in Nigeria in the 1960s.
Posted in 1971, The day of Ibn Awi He pushed him to world fame. Political excitement was converted around a professional killer into a movie in 1973 starring Edward Fox, and was recently adapted to a TV series starring Eddie Redmainine and Lashana Lynch.
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British author and journalist Frederick Forsith spoke to the previous one, where Carroll’s host is happening in 2006 about the superhero of the beloved Christmas, which was the main pillar of CBC radio for decades.
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He wrote more than 25 books including Afghanand The killing listand War dogs and God’s grip Lloyd said that she sold more than 75 million copies. Michael Kane, Pierce Prosnan, John Travolta and Crystofer Walken are among the actors who played the star or television modifications for Forshith’s work.
“Millions still read it all over the world. Freddie Impression is determined by this type and are still the standard to which contemporary writers aspire.”
For CBC, Forsyth’s Radio, Forsyth’s shepherd He was a permanent birthday, as the late read it As it happens Alan Maitland host for several years.
Forseth Radio CBC told in 2004 that the novel that combined the sides of the supernatural stories of nature and war explodes from it on a trip to Ireland with his wife at that time.
“I was ironic to write the story of her ghost,” said Forseth.
He added: “I was born by staring at a night sky in the middle of the winter and imagining a pilot there and lost, and a kind of screaming asking for help.”
Scott Care said Revenge against OdessaThe 1974 book supplement Odessa file Forseth has worked with his colleague, author Tony Kent, will be published in August.
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