Rise of Germany's Far Right inspired new thriller by 'Day of the Jackal' legend

Frederick Forsyth is making a stunning literate comeback with a sequel to his classical The Odessa File.

The novelist and seasoned Daily Express columnist collaborated with writer Tony Kent connected The Revenge Of Odessa, inspired by the caller rebirth of the acold Right successful Germany.

His archetypal bestseller – often hailed by fans arsenic his 2nd champion publication aft The Day of the Jackal – came retired successful 1972, adapted into a movie of the aforesaid sanction starring Jon Voight successful 1974. Its sequel, owed retired adjacent year, features the grandson of Forsyth’s archetypal hero, newsman Peter Miller, and is acceptable successful the summertime of 2025.

Georg Miller is simply a Berlin podcaster who stumbles crossed grounds that the Odessa, a Nazi web whose extremity is to instrumentality the fascists to power, has resurfaced – and their adjacent onslaught could alteration the people of history.

Forsyth, 86, sold much than 75 cardinal books and retired from penning novels successful 2018. But having seen with fearfulness the instrumentality of the acold Right, helium felt the clip had travel to revisit Odessa.

He said: “While The Odessa File was a merchandise of my imaginativeness implicit 50 years ago, the governmental realities it describes are inactive precise overmuch with us. I’ve been toying with an thought for a sequel for a fewer years. Working with the precise talented Tony Kent, we’ve been capable to conjure an breathtaking caller modern story.”

Forsyth, who hung up his pen connected his play Daily Express file connected his 85th day past twelvemonth aft astir 2 decades , exploded into nationalist attraction with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal, written successful conscionable 35 days and published successful 1971. It was made into a deed movie starring Edward Fox arsenic the titular ‘Jackal’, an assassin for prosecute targeting French President General de Gaulle. It has conscionable been remade arsenic a ten-part TV bid starring Eddie Redmayne which starts streaming connected Thursday.

Kent, 46, a transgression barrister and erstwhile boxer whose ain bestselling books see the Dempsey and Devlin series, said: “Being asked to enactment with a surviving fable similar Freddie is the biggest privilege of my penning career. I americium a instrumentality of thrillers conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic I americium a writer of thrillers, and arsenic a instrumentality determination is simply nary 1 successful the genre to lucifer him.

“One of my biggest ambitions was that helium would 1 time work and similar my ain books – possibly accidental a fewer bully words – truthful to present find myself chosen to constitute alongside him truly is simply a imagination travel true. Co-writing The Revenge of Odessa has been the astir brilliant, astir surreal and astir enjoyable acquisition of my beingness arsenic a writer, and I person loved each infinitesimal of learning from the master."

The Revenge of Odessa volition beryllium published successful August adjacent year.

Forsyth’s editor, Bill Scott-Kerr, said: “I was entranced by The Odessa File erstwhile I work it arsenic a conspiracy-hungry teen galore years agone so, erstwhile Freddie projected this caller book, The Revenge of Odessa, I leapt astatine the accidental to revisit its characters and themes.

“I’ve been moving with him implicit the people of galore books and I’ve ever been struck by his matchless quality to instrumentality modern events and weave a thrilling communicative astir them. This caller escapade is acceptable to beryllium nary exception. Its pages volition not lone clasp a reflector to the modern satellite but volition entertain thoroughly astatine the aforesaid time.”