Jack Wolf's author Frederick Forsyth, shepherd, died at the age of 86

Frederick Forsyth, author of the UK Jack's day His literary agent said Monday that other best-selling thrillers have passed away after a brief illness. He is 86 years old.

Forsyth died at home early Monday, his agent Jonathan Lloyd said.

“We mourn the death of one of the greatest thriller writers in the world,” Lloyd said.

Forsyth worked as a RAF pilot before becoming a foreign journalist and novelist. In 2015, he told the BBC that he was an informant of the British intelligence agency MI6 for many years, beginning with the 1960s making up for the civil war in Nigeria.

Published in 1971 Jack's day Promote him to become famous. The political thriller about professional assassins is a film starring Edward Fox and has been recently adapted into a TV series starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch.

Christmas favorite

He wrote 25 books, including Afghanistan,,,,, Kill List,,,,, Dogs of War and God's Fist Lloyd said more than 75 million copies have been sold. Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, John Travolta and Christopher Walken are all actors who star in the film or TV adaptation of Forsyth's work.

“Freddie's thriller is still read by millions of people, defining this genre, and remains the benchmark for contemporary writers' desire,” said his publisher Bill Scott-Kerr.

For CBC radio listeners, Forsyth shepherd It is a Christmas favorite every year, as mentioned before happen Hosted by Alan Maitland for many years.

Forsyth told CBC Radio in 2004 that it combined all aspects of the supernatural and war story, when he traveled to Ireland with his wife.

Forsyth said: “She laughed at me for writing a ghost story for her.”

“It was by staring at the night sky in the middle of winter, imagining a pilot lost there and screaming for help,” he added.

Scott-Kerr says Odessa's Revengea sequel to the 1974 book Odessa Documents Forsyth's collaboration with thriller writer Tony Kent will be published in August.