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Is there a writer who’s an essential touchstone for you, like Hemingway was for Elmore Leonard?

Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.

Ernest Hemingway once described going bankrupt as something that happens gradually ... and then suddenly.

Mr Hemingway said that his biggest regret was the loss of friends, in particular the loss of his friend, Richard "Dickie" Lee in August 1940.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote in his novel “To Have and Have Not”: “No matter how a man alone ain’t got no bloody chance.”