Frederick Forsyth
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Sep 20, 2026
AnnieHOST
He's tried this in multiple formats.
AnnieHOST
One of them was he talked to his buddy, Frederick Forsyth, about it at a party.
AnnieHOST
And then Frederick's like, let's make a book together.
AnnieHOST
I've written crime thrillers.
AnnieHOST
Okay, so get this.
AnnieHOST
The introduction of this book.
AnnieHOST
This is a 1999 novel by a British writer named Frederick Forsyth, who then spends the book desperately imagining what people in America must talk like.
MackenzieHOST
Perfect.
Joby WarrickGUEST
One of the safe houses next to a bookcase where Carlos stashed his weapons is a copy of the book that came out in the 70s called Day of the Jackal.
Joby WarrickGUEST
It's a famous novel by Frederick Forsythe.
Joby WarrickGUEST
It's about a glamorous international gunman who has a luxurious lifestyle, loves beautiful women, but wants to kill the president.
Joby WarrickGUEST
So there's similarities between this fictional Jackal and young Ilyich, but just the juxtaposition of this fictional book next to Carlos' material things was enough to create A new name, a new legend for this wanted suspect.
Joby WarrickGUEST
And one of the safe houses next to a bookcase where Carlos stashed his weapons is a copy of the book that came out in the 70s called Day of the Jackal.
Joby WarrickGUEST
So it's a famous novel by Frederick Forsythe.
Joby WarrickGUEST
It's about a glamorous international gunman who has a luxurious lifestyle, loves beautiful women, but wants to kill the president.
Joby WarrickGUEST
So there's similarities between this fictional jackal and young Ilyich.
Hannah MaguireHOST
Perhaps this is where his fixation began.
Hannah MaguireHOST
Ball was allegedly inspired by Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal, where an ultra-stealthy assassin is hired to murder the president of France, Charles de Gaulle.
speaker_4HOST
It's also a series, or a- a series or a film.
speaker_4HOST
Eddie Redmayne plays him.
Peter TurnbullGUEST
I'm reading two things.
Peter TurnbullGUEST
I'm reading a Frederick Forsyth novel, very slowly.
Peter TurnbullGUEST
I've also just started, I'm only a few pages in because we're reading it as a staff team, Paul Miller, Loving Like Jesus, might have the title wrong, which is, I can't give you too much comment because I'm only a few pages in.
Peter TurnbullGUEST
He wrote a book in prayer as well, didn't he? Right, right.
Charles PignalHOST
Yeah.
Charles PignalHOST
I mean, I guess, you know, if we're talking about Le Carré or Frederick Forsyth or Ian Fleming, tho- those people, they're of a certain era and-
Olivia Kate MenziesHOST
When was this one published?
Charles PignalHOST
Oh, I think like 2022 or something.
Steven CrayHOST
The brand-new ones have gone back to a two-door, and they are fully electric.
Steven CrayHOST
Question eight, which omnivorous predatory canine appears in the title of the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth? [cheerful jingle] A jackal.
Steven CrayHOST
The Day of the Jackal.
Steven CrayHOST
Question nine, what type of weather phenomenon is the Fremantle Doctor? [cheerful jingle] Wind.
Charles LachmanGUEST
Well, I hope that they'll appreciate the book as the untold story of the greatest manhunt in history.
Charles LachmanGUEST
One of my favorite books growing up as a kid was The Day of the Jackal, written by Frederick Forsythe.
Charles LachmanGUEST
Of course, that was fiction.
Charles LachmanGUEST
And it was always my ambition to write a work of narrative nonfiction that had the drive and narrative force of a story like The Day of the Jackal.
Thomas777GUEST
That's complete nonsense.
Thomas777GUEST
Wiesenthal was a nobody who built a career on bullshit and presenting himself as some sort of Frederick Forsyth novel character.
Thomas777GUEST
This was completely confabulated.
Thomas777GUEST
And like I said, too, Eichmann wasn't really hiding, number one.
Charles LachmanGUEST
Well, I hope that they'll appreciate the book as the untold story of the greatest manhunt in history.
Charles LachmanGUEST
One of my favorite books growing up as a kid was The Day of the Jackal, written by Frederick Forsythe.
Charles LachmanGUEST
Of course, that was fiction.
Charles LachmanGUEST
And it was always my ambition to write a work of narrative nonfiction that had the drive and narrative force of a story like The Day of the Jackal.
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