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Article: Still an action man at heart.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2003
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Byline: By Lindesay Irvine
The confession that he never planned to be a novelist seems strange coming from a man whose books have sold 70m copies in many languages.
But Frederick Forsyth's youthful ambition was to be one of the rugged men of action whose courage his novels celebrate. He succeeded.
Now aged 65, the thick-set grandee of the books world may spend much of his time at a typewriter at his Hertfordshire farmhouse. But it wasn't always this way.
"When I left school I had two determinations," he says. "One was to fly, one was to be ...