Forsyth, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 86, leaves behind a body of work that spans half a century, comprising 14 novels, more than 75 million copies sold, and a blueprint for every modern espionage writer who has followed. His debut, The Day of the Jackal (1971), turned an attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle into one of the most tautly engineered novels ever written. It made a genre out of journalism, fiction assembled with the meticulous care of an intelligence briefing. Story continues below this ad In Revenge of Odessa, that same precision endures. The...