Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025)

Frederick Forsyth, novelist best known for The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, who also worked for MI6 and later for Reuters as a war correspondent, has died at the age of 86. 

The Day of the Jackal, published in 1971, was a best seller and later a hit movie starring Edward Fox. Last year Eddie Redmayne starred in a television series featuring the Jackal character.

Here is a short bibliography examining the law and politics in Forsyth’s works.

Charity Fox, Rugged Individualities and Systemic Coups: Imagining Mercenary Masculinities in The Dogs of War, in Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US (S. Horlacher and K. Floyd, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), at 39-56.

Dudley Jones, Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth, in Spy Thrillers (C. Bloom, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 1990), at 160-184.

Robert Lance Snyder, Frederick Forsyth’s Outsiders in The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War, 43 Studies in Popular Culture 1-20 (Fall 2020).