The author was also appointed as the Commander of the Order of the British Empire during the 1997 New Year Honors. Additionally, in February 2012, the Crime Writers Association listed Forsyth as the winner of Cartier Diamond Dagger Award as a recognition for his prolific work. Other novels written by Frederick Forsyth are No Comebacks (1982), The Deceiver (1991), Icon (1996) and Avenger (2003) FREDERICK FORSYTH AWARDSįrederick Forsyth was the winner of 1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award for the novel The Day of the Jackal. The author wrote The Dogs of War in 1974, a book that explains the story of a mining executive who hires mercenaries to overthrow the government of an African country. Later in 1972, he published The Odessa File a book that narrates the story of a reporter who attempts to track down a group of ex-Nazis in the modern Germany. His first full-length novel was The Day of the Jackal which became an international bestseller and was made into a movie by the same name. He decided to write a novel in 1970 but to write it using similar techniques that he applied in journalism. Forsyth left BBC in 1968 and returned to Biafra where he worked as a freelancer, and in 1969, he published a book about the Biafran War titled The Biafra Story.
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