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'DAY OF THE JACKAL' AUTHOR WRITES ABOUT HUMAN EMOTIONS FOR ONCE

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From: The Columbian
Date: 20000102
Author:MARY CAMPBELL, Associated Press

MARY CAMPBELL, Associated Press
The Columbian
01-02-2000
NEW YORK -- Frederick Forsyth has been chided for not having romance and warm human beings in his novels.
"Well," he says in defense, "spies, assassins and mercenaries are chilly people."
But the latest book by the author of "The Day of the Jackal" contains love and warmth, even spirituality.
He got the idea for the novel two years ago while talking to musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's "The Phantom of Manhattan," set in 1906, a sequel to Gaston Leroux's book and Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the ...

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