Day of the jackal author5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The writer said he would submit draft pages from his novels to MI6 to check that he was not divulging sensitive details and they would sometimes come back with annotations and paragraphs underlined. ![]() In an interview on the sidelines of a speaking engagement organised by the London Grill Club, Forsyth also spoke about his work for MI6 in Africa and the former Soviet bloc during the Cold War. "How many bakers go on baking after 78?" he quipped. ![]() He said his memoir "The Outsider" was his "swan song". "There was some statistical information on Somalia but not what I wanted, which was atmosphere," he said. After his last trip to Somalia as research for "The Kill List", Forsyth said his wife told him: "You're far too old, these places are bloody dangerous and you don't run as avidly, as nimbly as you used to."įorsyth, who has only ever written on a typewriter, said he had tried an online search for Somalia but had been "very dissatisfied" with the results. ![]()
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