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Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film. By , he had sold more than 70 million books in more than 30 languages. Forsyth was educated at Tonbridge School , a private boarding and day school in the market town of Tonbridge in Kent. Forsyth reported on his early activities as a journalist.

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His early career was spent covering French affairs and the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle. After his six months were over, however, Forsyth—eager to carry on reporting—approached the BBC to ask if he could have more time there. He noted their response:. I was told quite bluntly, then, "it is not our policy to cover this war".

This was a period when the Vietnam War was front-page headlines almost every day, regarded broadly as an American cock-up, and this particularly British cock-up in Nigeria was not going to be covered. I smelt news management.

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I don't like news management. So I made a private vow to myself: "you may, gentlemen, not be covering it, but I'm going to cover it". So I quit and flew out there, and stayed there for most of the next two years. He thus returned to Biafra as a freelance reporter, writing his first book, The Biafra Story , in In August , Forsyth revealed that in Biafra he was an informant for MI6 , [ 7 ] a relationship that continued for 20 years.

According to Forsyth, he was not paid.