It has been a long time since the Letters desk’s fax machine saw daily action. For years, though, it continued to stand guard, awaiting the salvos of one correspondent in particular: Frederick ...

"Day of the Jackal" author Frederick Forsyth has dropped a bombshell, confessing he covertly served MI6 for two decades during the Cold War without any compensation. In a gripping tale, Forsyth ...

In Forsyth’s The Fox (Putnam, Oct.), MI6 employs the talents of 18-year-old genius hacker Luke Jennings against Britain’s enemies. Is there a real-life basis for Luke? Yes, there is. In fact, over ...

LONDON (AP) — Frederick Forsyth, the British author of “The Day of the Jackal” and other bestselling thrillers, has died after a brief illness, his literary agent said Monday. He was 86. Jonathan ...

The British novelist Frederick Forsyth, author of "The Day Of The Jackal," has died. He was 86 years old. As Willem Marx reports, the news-correspondent-turned-author helped create an entirely new ...

He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy. By Clay Risen Frederick Forsyth, who used his early ...