The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

Frederick Forsyth

Oct 2015 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

From Frederick Forsyth, 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 groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, 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 in 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 was 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.
It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

Ratings and reviews

He takes u around the world tour.t world of t utmost n t lowest.t castles. t kgb.t fbi t cib.cbi.feeddayin.t mosaad n where u can not reach.t under world of almost all t countries I have gone along shri Frederick Forsyth.t white house.behind kremlin wall I have entered.china underworld. Vietnam Corea n many unknown islands toured I made with him.t original author.i would say.not writter.t creator.takes u along with him anywhere. can not describe in words.

Quite the eventful life, he's had.

The outsider: my life in intrigue

About the author

Frederick Forsyth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, including The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, as well as short story collections and a memoir. A former Air Force pilot, and one-time print and television reporter for the BBC, he has had four movies and two television miniseries made from his works. He is the winner of three Edgar Awards, and in 2012 he won the Diamond Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.