The Outsider : My Life in Intrigue

from musichick52

This memoir is a very entertaining read. We travel with Forsyth from his boyhood obsession with flying to his employment assignments with Reuters and the BBC. Returning from Africa and losing his job, he reinvents himself as a novelist, turning his life experiences into financial success. He suff...

from shazjhb

Excellent book. Always loved his novels so it was interesting to read about his life.

from SamSattler

No one will ever accuse Frederick Forsyth of not having lived life to its fullest. Forsyth, now in his eighth decade, seems to have been predisposed to live an extraordinarily adventurous life almost from the beginning and he, in fact, managed to become one of the youngest young men ever to earn ...

from SigmundFraud

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth is a compelling autobiography by the master of spy fiction. As a young child he was obsessed by planes and flying and swore he would do that when he grew up. He did learn to fly planes but wasn't accepted into the Royal Air Force because of e...

from AnnieMod

When one of the big authors of thrillers writes his autobiography, there are two ways for it to go - either he has real stories that are at least as interesting as his novels or his life is so normal that he needs to talk about his work in order to have something to say. Forsyth had lived an inte...