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About The Day of the Jackal. THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH “The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”—The New York Times The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes.
About The Day of the Jackal. THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH “The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”—The New York Times The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes.
The Day of the Jackal, written by Fredrick Forsyth, is a fictional novel that displays the author’s brilliance by setting a mood and connecting you with the characters. The Day of the Jackal takes place in post-World War II in France. The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not revealed, who is hired by a French terrorist group ...
The Day of the Jackal changed the shape of popular fiction from the moment it was finished' Ben Macintyre. 'In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday Times. One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. 1963.
Books. The Day of the Jackal. Frederick Forsyth. Curley Pub., 1992 - Fiction - 492 pages. The jackal was an anonymous Englishman who, in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Mark Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS, to assassinate General de Gaulle.
Amazingly Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal in 35 days in 1970. He had trouble finding a publisher who would accept the unsolicited 140,000-word manuscript. It seems that publishing houses were worried about the content and that the assassination target, Charles de Gualle, was still alive (though passed away shortly).
The Day of the Jackal changed the shape of popular fiction from the moment it was finished' BEN MACINTYRE _____ One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. 1963.
