It was 1 January 1970. Frederick Forsyth was down on his luck. An out-of-work war correspondent, he had just fled the collapsing Republic of Biafra "with a price on my head". He had no money ...

No one is happier that she jumped on board than Eddie Redmayne, who plays the Jackal, the myth-like murderer for hire. Her ...

Frenchwoman Hélène Bastien-Thiry says she would only consider watching the much-touted new Day of the Jackal series on one ...

So for the moment, at least, it's plain old Mr Frederick Forsyth nursing a glass of red wine in a London restaurant even more venerable than he is, sitting beneath a mural showing the late Lady ...

Transworld has acquired Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent’s The Revenge of Odessa, the sequel to The Odessa File (Arrow/Viking), written by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent. This new title comes 52 ...

Carnival bosses Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant had toyed with the idea of remaking Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 historical novel about the fictional assassination of Charles de Gaulle for a few ...

Allie Hammond, general manager and part-owner of Dutch's Daughter, says one of her favorite things about working at the restaurant is "being a part of people's greatest memories." Between ...

It is 50 years since the book by Frederick Forsyth was published but, in a new introduction to a special anniversary edition, Child says it still feels "luminously fresh and new". And no-one is ...

Mostly. There's also "The Day of the Jackal" (Nov. 14), a modern-day adaptation of the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel about an elusive assassin (Eddie Redmayne) being pursued across Europe by a ...

But rest easy. While it’s not faithful to the details of the plot, it is utterly in the spirit of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel – both in the tale and its attention to detail. And the ...

Frederick the Wise is remembered as the man who saved Martin Luther from the fury of the Catholic Church. Frederick was born in Hartenfels Castle, Torgau in 1463, the first son of the Elector ...

But there was one man whose attendance was particularly remarkable – Jackal author Frederick Forsyth, who wrote what fellow novelist Lee Child has called 'the book that broke the mould'.