Biography
Frederick Forsight is one of the most successful authors of political detectives. Like his overseas fellow Tom Clancy, the British Prosecuis made a cold war by the main theme of his works, and historical facts successfully squeezed fiction.Childhood and youth
The writer, whose full name is Frederick McCarthy, was born at the end of the summer of 1938 in the town of Ashford, located about 100 km south-east of the British capital. Parents called Frederick William and Phyllis Green. Forsyt-senior earned trade in fur products and, according to the memoirs of his son, was a very caring father.
The secondary education Frederick Jr. received in Tonbridge School, which in half a century, the occultist and poet Alister Crowley visited him, and 50 years after the author of Roman "Shakal Day" - members of the Keane group Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes and Dominic Scott . The teenager was read by adventure books.
In his youth, Frederick mastered the French, German and Spanish languages (also foresight knows the languages of Dante Aligiery and Leo Tolstoy), was a motorcycle racing and toleador. At 17, the future writer became the youngest pilot of the British Royal Air Force.
Personal life
About the personal life of Frederick knows little. The writer, in whose biography there was a lot of intrigue and even more investigations, seeks to avoid not only scandals, but also from revelations about the family. The first spouse is called Carol, in his youth, the woman was a model. Forsite has two already adult sons, which he dedicated the work "Outsider. My life is like intrigue. "In 1988, the writer divorced his first wife, and after 6 years he married a woman named Sandy.
Embed from getty imagesIn 2015, Prosaik admitted that for decades was an agent of British intelligence. In an interview with Radio Freedom ", the author of the" Kill List "and" Cobra "explained that he was not a spy (that is, I did not paint the secret documents), but repeatedly performed requests-orders Mi-6 on the transfer and transportation of letters, packages and cases . As a remuneration, intelligence advised Frederick, what information is declassified, and which represents the state secret.
Judging by the photo, the writer smokes. As the reader Forsight prefers non-Fickshen, and the most heavy part of the writer is believed to the inevitability of publicity. Islamic fundamentalism considers the main threat of civilization now, and the possibility of anthropogenic climate change is skeptical.
Career and creativity
Like Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Forsyt, before joining the writer, honked the feather in the reporting genre. In 20 years, Frederick, saying goodbye to the military service, began working as a journalist to "Istrn Daily Press", and at 23rd became an employee of the British news agency "Reuters".
The first writer experience of Forsight was the book of essays "Story about Biafre". In early 1970 he was fired from the post of correspondent BBC in Nigeria. The reason for the resignation was the incompression of the opinion of the journalist with a point of view of Great Britain to a civil war in this African country.
A young man remained without money, apartments and work. Feeling yourself with a loser, Frederick came up with the Hero-Outsider, who preparing the murder of President France Charles de Gaulle. The novel "Shakal's Day", written by foresight for 5 weeks, became the most successful product of the author.
27 publishers rejected the manuscript, and only the editors of Vaiking Press understood what a diamond was brought by a writer for consideration, and concluded a contract with Frederick writing three more novels. So "Odessa Dossier", "Dogs of War" and "Guidel" appeared.
The factory reception was that the plot in most of its works is unfolded in 3-4 years after the date of the publication of the book. The author shows the inhabitant the near future and the intrigues of it. Another "Fishka" Prosaika is a thorough study of details: the description of the airports, train stations, weapons and communications with Frederick is very reliable, and the reader, having fallen on the fishing rod, begins to believe in the Stabul Romanov.
In the bibliography of Forsight there are collections of stories ("no refund") and the leader ("veteran"), as well as the mansion of the novel "Ghost Manhattan", which is a continuation of the musical Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Gaston's novel Lero "Ghost Opera". Character Mike Martin and his brother Terry are the heroes of two works of Prosaik - "Kulak Allah" and "Afghan".
In 1974, the veteran of the British cinema Ronald Him, famous for Russian-speaking spectators in the picture "Banking ticket to Million pounds sterling" and "Poseidon's Adventures" ", shielded" Odessa's dossier. " Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music, and the main roles performed Maximilian Shell and John Jott, shortly after the filming conceived his famous daughter Angelina Jolie.
The artists of Michael York and Patrick Swayze were shone in the adaptation of the Forsaytovsky novel "Icon". In December 1989, the premiere of the series "Frederick Forsayt represents", which lasted 2 seasons.
Frederick Forsight now
In the middle of the 10th, the XXI century, shortly after the publication of the book "Outsider. My life is like an intrigue, "the light of his biography of his biography, Forsight told reporters that he will continue to create trillers novels, because he promised his wife no longer ride hot spots.However, at the end of 2018, Frederick was pleased with the readers with a new work "Lis", in which the British-teen-out-of-autist hacks the sites of the Pentagon and the CIA. Mi-6 decides to use the hacker skills of the young man to counteract the aggressive plans of Iran and North Korea.
Forsyt does not report whether his bibliography will be replenished in 2020.
Bibliography
- 1971 - "Shakal Day"
- 1972 - "Odessa Dossier"
- 1974 - "Dogs of War"
- 1982 - "Emek"
- 1982 - "No refund"
- 1984 - "Fourth Protocol"
- 1989 - "Mediator"
- 1991 - "Deceiver"
- 1994 - "Kulak Allah"
- 1996 - "Icon"
- 1999 - "Ghost Manhattan"
- 2003 - "Avenger"
- 2006 - "Afghan"
- 2010 - "Cobra"
- 2013 - "List of killings"
- 2015 - "Outsider. My life as intrigue "
- 2018 - "Lis"