{"product_id":"the-outsider-my-life-in-intrigue-9781101981856","title":"The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the grand master of international suspense comes his most intriguing story ever--his own.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from \u003ci\u003eThe Day of the Jackal\u003c\/i\u003e on. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don't know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life.\u003cbr\u003e He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian Civil War, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and has himself been accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent, well, her actions were a bit more . . . intimate. And that's just for starters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nominated for the Edgar Award for best critical\/biographical work of 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Forsyth \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of fifteen novels, from 1971's\u003ci\u003e The Day of the Jackal \u003c\/i\u003eto 2013's \u003ci\u003eThe Kill List\u003c\/i\u003e, and two short story collections. A former pilot and print and television reporter for Reuters and the BBC, he won the Diamond Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association in 2012 for a career of sustained excellence. Forsyth lives in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461846110482,"sku":"9781101981856","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae244566-95d2-4d03-9c5e-86411b7a0c8e.jpg?v=1730081689","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-outsider-my-life-in-intrigue-9781101981856","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}