{"id":13324,"date":"2024-06-16T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:23:08","slug":"the-fourth-protocol-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/16\/the-fourth-protocol-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Protocol (almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/14\/how-legendary-spy-novelist-frederick-forsyth-discovered-hed-been-bowdlerized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Federalist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Legendary Spy Novelist Frederick Forsyth Learned He\u2019d Been \u2018Bowdlerized\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/ltaunton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LARRY TAUNTON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A night in with Frederick Forsyth and Lee Child\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkdSSCz2j3Q?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Good morning. A pleasure to meet you. Please forgive my attire. A difficult night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhat disheveled and wearing only a bathrobe and slippers, Frederick Forsyth greeted me from what I assumed to be a favorite armchair in his living room. I felt slightly envious of a man who had reached an age and level of success where he doesn\u2019t care what people think about him and doesn\u2019t need to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crisp, unwrinkled copies of The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph sat neatly on an ottoman in front of him awaiting his inspection. With an unexpected display of strength, his 60-something personal assistant lifted a substantial chair off the floor and moved it close to her employer, inviting me to sit down before she withdrew to get us coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo what is required of me?\u201d Forsyth began with a formality that belied his ensemble. \u201cAn interview, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 85, his impeccable English manners were on display and, once primed, so was his agile mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frederick Forsyth must be considered one of the inventors of the modern thriller novel. The author of such bestsellers as\u00a0<em>The Day of the Jackal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Odessa File<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Dogs of War<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Fourth Protocol<\/em>, all major Hollywood productions, his career has spanned six decades, and with Eddie Redmayne set to play the Jackal in a television miniseries reboot of the 1971 novel-turned-film, his popularity shows no signs of slowing down, even if he does. To date, Forsyth has sold more than 70 million books in more than 30 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/14\/how-legendary-spy-novelist-frederick-forsyth-discovered-hed-been-bowdlerized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Federalist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Federalist How Legendary Spy Novelist Frederick Forsyth Learned He\u2019d Been \u2018Bowdlerized\u2019 BY:\u00a0LARRY TAUNTON &#8220;Good morning. A pleasure to meet you. Please forgive my attire. A difficult night.\u201d Somewhat disheveled and wearing only a bathrobe and slippers, Frederick Forsyth greeted me from what I assumed to be a favorite armchair in his living room. 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