Thriller author on scene of African coup
British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth once wrote a novel about a coup in an African country. Now he’s living it – in Guinea-Bissau. He tells anchor Lisa Mullins about tensions in Guinea-Bissau, following the assassinations of the nation’s president and the head of its armed forces on Sunday.
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