Ladonna Harris
February, 1972
Though the Author of the international best seller The Day of the Jackal, about an almost perfect plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, has been likened to Len Deighton and John Le Carré, Frederick Forsyth doesn't consider the comparison apt. "Those fellows are serious writers and, frankly, I got in it for the money," the 33-year-old Englishman says, his tongue only partly wedged in his cheek. "In January 1970, I decided it was time to make some. And with just $20 on hand, a book...
