{"id":6570,"date":"2025-06-10T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:50:37","slug":"frederick-forsyth-1938-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/frederick-forsyth-1938-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czj4ljxv17xo\">has died at the age of 86.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt24053860\/\">a television series featuring the Jackal character.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a short bibliography examining the law and politics in Forsyth&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p>Charity Fox,\u00a0<em>Rugged Individualities and Systemic Coups: Imagining Mercenary Masculinities in The Dogs of War,<\/em> in Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US (S. Horlacher and K. Floyd, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), at 39-56.<\/p>\n<p>Dudley Jones,\u00a0<em>Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth,<\/em> in Spy Thrillers (C. Bloom, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 1990), at 160-184.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lance Snyder,\u00a0<em>Frederick Forsyth&#8217;s Outsiders in The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War,<\/em> 43 Studies in Popular Culture 1-20 (Fall 2020).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frederick-forsyth","category-thrillers"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1HY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}