Frederick Forsyth was 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. Now he is a thriller author and his books
have been sold over 35 million times worldwide.
Supported a motion to impeach British Prime Minister Tony Blair after
the war "Operation Iraqi Freedom".
He revealed to the BBC in 2015, that in the late 1960s he started to spy for MI6 in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war, and remained working for MI6 for 20 years, unpaid.
Writes all his best-selling novels the old-fashioned way -- on a
typewriter.
He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the
1997 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to literature.
I have yet to be convinced that the film business is a profession for adults.
The spies in history who can say from their graves: "The information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet." can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group.