Novelist Frederick Forsyth says US spies recently destroyed his wife's computer in an attempt to access a story he was writing.

"The author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File made the bizarre claim during a recent interview with BBC TV program Hardtalk," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Forsyth told the program that he arrived in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau to research an upcoming novel to find the country in the middle of a coup, following the assassination of an army chief."

"Forsyth wrote a story on the unfolding events for the Daily Express, a UK tabloid paper for which he writes an occasional column, and began to dictate his copy over the telephone to London before computer disaster struck," Leyden writes.

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