LONDON, June 10 -- British novelist Frederick Forsyth, who authored best-selling thrillers such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "The Dogs of War," died on Monday. He was 86. Forsyth honed a distinctive style of deeply researched and precise espionage thrillers. For inspiration he drew on his own globe-trotting life, including an early stint as a foreign correspondent and assisting Britain's spy service on missions in Nigeria, South Africa, and the former East Germany and Rhodesia. "The research was the big parallel: as a foreign correspondent you are probing, asking questions, trying to find out what's going on, and probably being lied to," he said in 2015. "Working on a novel is much the same... essentially it's a very extended report about something that never happened -- but might have." P11...