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The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The Day of the Jackal is a 1971 thriller by Frederick Forsyth. The novel is centered around a professional assassin, known only as the Jackal, who is hired by a French paramilitary group to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle.
The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not revealed, who is hired by a French terrorist group to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. This terrorist group has had several failed attacks on the President, and the Jackal is their last hope.
9 Νοε 2023 · Frederick Forsyth’s “The Day of the Jackal” is not just a political thriller; it’s a meticulously crafted journey into the heart of international espionage, a pulse-pounding tale that has...
While the novel may be a fictional work, the character of Charles de Gaulle is based on reality. The Jackal researches his target thoroughly and, as Lebel suggests, the Jackal is “a bit of a psychologist” (350). He comes to the conclusion that de Gaulle is almost fatally arrogant.
13 Νοε 2020 · Needing money, Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal (1971), a fast-paced thriller about a plot to assassinate the French President, Charles de Gaulle, and it was bought in 1970, along with his next two books, by publisher Harold Harris, at Hutchinson.
The novel challenges the assertion that perestroika ushered in peaceful coexistence, ending international crises and the need for the derring-do of traditional spies.
