Seventy-year-old thriller author
Frederick Forsyth (
The Dogs of War, The Odessa File) was in the West African country of
Guinea-Bissau on a research trip earlier this week, when the president and chief of the army were assassinated. From
The Telegraph:
“I can assure you I had nothing to do with the coup d’etat,” said the author, who has previously admitted to helping fund a 1973 coup attempt in nearby Equatorial Guinea, and whose 1974 book The Dogs of War recounted a failed plot to topple the government of a fictional African country.
When prompted, however, Forsyth maintained that he might, at some point, be tempted to make lemonade from his recent experience:
“What I was researching had nothing to do with bumping off generals or bumping off presidents,” he said.
“But it’s a little extra garnish on the cake, so I’ll probably use it eventually in the book.”
The Telegraph piece can be found
here.
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