Book 2007

The Day of the Jackal

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Publisher: Brand: The Viking Press
Published: 2007

Fiction
Literature
Assassination attempts
Assassins
Attempted assassination
France, fiction
Fiction, espionage
Fiction, historical

In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday TimesOne of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.