![]() The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a 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. But here’s Wikipedia’s synopsis, for those still in the dark: ![]() Most people know the gist of the story, if not from having read Forsyth’s yarn, then from watching the 1973 film it engendered. The book was released in the United Kingdom on June 7, 1971, by Hutchinson & Company, and on August 6, 1971-50 years ago today-in the United States, by Viking Press. British journalist-turned-author Frederick Forsyth was just 33 years old when his first novel, a political thriller titled The Day of the Jackal, originally saw print.
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