LONDON – Frederick Forseth, British author of The day of Ibn Awi His literary agent said on Monday that the best -selling excitement died after a short illness. It was 86.

Jonathan Lloyd, his agent, said Forseth died at home early in the two surrounded by his family.

“We are sad about the death of one of the greatest excitement book in the world,” Lloyd said.

He was born in Kent, in southern England, in 1938, Forseth worked as a royal air force pilot before he became a foreign correspondent. He covered an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962, which provided an inspiration The day of Ibn AwiThe best -selling politician about a professional killer.

Posted in 1971, pushed the book to world fame. He was converted into a movie in 1973, starring Edward Fox in the role of Jacqual and recently, a TV series starring Eddie Redmainne and Lashana Lynch.

In 2015, the BBC told the BBC that he also worked at the British Intelligence Agency MI6 for many years, starting with this when he covered a civil war in Nigeria in the 1960s.

Although Forseth said he had made other proxy functions, he said he had not been paid for his services and “it was difficult to say no” to the officials looking for information.

“The era was different,” he told the BBC. “The Cold War was very large.”

He wrote more than 25 books including Afghan, killing list, war dogs and God’s grip Lloyd said that she sold more than 75 million copies.

Publisher Bill Scott Care said Revenge against OdessaThe 1974 book supplement Odessa file Forseth has worked with his colleague, author Tony Kent, will be published in August.

“Millions still read it all over the world,” Freddie Implers still determines this type and still the standard to which contemporary writers aspire, “said Scott Care.