Author of many a successful thriller, Frederick Forsyth, was embroiled in a real life one as he was in Guinea-Bissau when the country's president was assassinated on March 9.
Forsyth was in the troubled west African nation, notorious for 30 years of coups and civil unrest, to work on the research for his new book when its latest round of bloodletting began.
He was woken in his hotel room by an explosion early on Monday morning, the sound of a rocket-propelled grenade attack at the home of the late president, Joao Bernardo Vieira. "They went to his villa, threw a bomb through the window which hurt him, but didn't kill him," Mr Forsyth told the BBC's World Today programme from Bissau, the capital. "The roof came down, that hurt him but didn't kill him either. He struggled out of the rubble and was promptly shot. This, however, still didn't kill him. They then took him to his mother-in-law's house and chopped him to bits with machetes."
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