The Day of the Jackal : The legendary assassination thriller

Author: Forsyth, Frederick

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 April 2011 by Cornerstone (Arrow Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 400 pages
199 x 130 x 26 | 282g

* Soon to be a major TV series directed by Brian Kirk and starring Eddie Redmayne! *The 50th Anniversary Edition of the legendary assassination thriller, with a new introduction by Lee Child.

'As gripping now as it was 50 years ago' THE TIMES'Masterful suspense . . . 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 TIMESOne 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. An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to reach.

Only one man could do the job: an assassin of legendary talent known only as The Jackal.

This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped. But he is a man without a name, without an identity; a lethal spectre.

How can you stop an assassin nobody can identify? The task falls to the best detective in France - and the price of failure is unthinkable . . .

Readers can't stop reading The Day of the Jackal . . .

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'Very clever and immensely entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A perfect example of the adventure story . . . well written, entirely believable, with this intriguing, enigmatic character at its centre' ROBERT HARRIS'A year-zero, game-changing thriller, one of the most significant of all time' LEE CHILD'Wonderful and way ahead of its time' JAMES PATTERSON'An extraordinary book' NICK ROBINSON, BBC RADIO 4 TODAY PROGRAMME'A masterpiece' MARCUS SCRIVEN, MAIL ON SUNDAY'I was spellbound . . . riveted by this chilling story' GUARDIAN