The Day of the Jackal - Hardcover

Forsyth, Frederick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190962103X ISBN 13: 9781909621039

Publisher: Collector's Library, 2013

Synopsis

The novel, later made into a movie, by English writer Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organization, to kill Charles DeGaulle, the President of France.

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From the Publisher:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

"The Day Of The Jackal makes such comparable books that The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold seems like Hardy Boy mysteries." -- The New York Times

From the Inside Flap:

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with  opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his  profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the  world's most heavily guarded man.

One  man with a rifle who can change the course of  history. One man whose mission is so secretive not  even his employers know his name. And as the  minutes count down to the final act of execution, it  seems that there is no power on earth that can stop  the Jackal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 190962103X
• ISBN 13: 9781909621039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520