Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
From 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 Day of the Jackal on. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers 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 has himself been 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.

Nominated for the Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work of 2015.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider. My Life in Intrigue. Putnam's, ISBN: 9781101981856 (October, 2016), 352 p., $28.00.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE...
At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory. Three years later, broke and out of work, he wrote his game-changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal. He never looked back. Forsyth has seen some of the most exhilarating moments of the last century from the inside, travelling the world, once or twice on her majesty's secret service. He's been shot at, he's been arrested, he's even been seduced by an undercover agent. But all the while he felt he was an outsider. This is his story.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider. My Life in Intrigue. Corgi Books, ISBN: 9780552171700 (May, 2016), 367 p., £8.99.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
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.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider. My Life in Intrigue. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399176074 (October, 2015), 332 p., $28.00, eBook $13.99.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale.
'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau. The Stasi arrested me, the Israelis regaled me, the IRA prompted a quick move from Ireland to England, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent - well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that's just for starters.

All of that I saw from the inside. But all that time I was, nonetheless, an outsider.'

Trained first as a pilot, then as a journalist, Frederick Forsyth finally turned to fiction and became one of the most lauded thriller writers of our time. As exciting as his novels, Forsyth's autobiography is a candid look at an extraordinary life lived to the full, a life whose unique experiences have provided rich inspiration for thirteen internationally bestselling thrillers.

Frederick Forsyth: The Outsider. My Life in Intrigue. Bantam Books, ISBN: 9780593075401 (September, 2015), 367 p., £20.00.