The OutsiderBy: Frederick Forsyth FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory. Three years later, broke and out of work, he wrote his game changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal. He