The Outsider

My Life in Intrigue

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Robert Powell

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.


For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, 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.

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 was 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.
It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

A great life story behind the legendary novels

It was amazing to hear of all the adventures of the author of my childhood favorite books. I still cannot believe that he lived through all of this. I wish everyone to have as exciting of a life. And what’s inportant for audiobooks - very well read!

I really loved it.

I love fredrick Forsyth's Novels - Avenger and The Afghan. They were amazing. I was not a big fan of reading but it all changed after reading the Avenger. From then on I became a fan of Frederick Forsyth.
I thought this was another one of his fictions, until I reached one of the chapters that mentioned his surname. Then I searched about him on wikipedia and that confirmed it. I was surprised that he went through such a big adventure. He is the master story teller.

Adventure, Courage and Writing

The willingness to go, the courage to stay, and the ability to make a story that people will read. Not a perfect life, but these ingredients together make his a life worth living.

The pleasure of belated visit...

Having read most (if not all) of Forsyth books it was a great pleasure "peeking" into his head...
It resulted in the urge to dust off the old books off the shelf and take another spin fortified with a unique new dimention...
Happy landing....

A tribute to a life well lived

As an avid fan of the authors work, this story of how it all happened was a worthwhile journey behind the scenes of some of his best work.