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The Dogs of War
1980 · Film · 118 min
Directed by John Irvin
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.
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He was a favourite author of mine when I was young, many great novels.
> The Day Of The Jackal was turned into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox as the Jackal, and then became a TV drama starring Eddie Redmayne last year.
It was also the 1997 Bruce Willis movie "The Jackal": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119395/
The Dogs of War was also a 1980 movie as well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080641/
I find it hilarious how Dogs of War is different as the book and the movie. The movie is a classical '80s thing with big guns and explosions. The book on the other hand gets into great detail about the logistics of organizing a coup, holding accounts, export licenses for arms, etc. Forsyth would've probably preferred to write it as a non-fiction book, but making it a work of fiction vastly extended his life expectancy.
I recall the 1980 film inspired by the book to be "not bad", but it's been decades since I saw it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dogs_of_War_(film)
The Dogs of War was made into a movie with Cristopher Walken and Tom Berenger, featuring the Manville gun as a kind of super grenade launcher.
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth I assume...I've got and read the book, but not seen the film.