The Day of the Jackal

The Jackal is the main character in the novel The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, which features a storyline centred on a professional assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle's life in the summer of 1963. The book was published...

In this article: Jackal, Charles de Gaulle, and Rafael Leonidas Trujillo

The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

In this article: Jackal, Charles de Gaulle, Yigal Amir, Frederick Forsyth, Yitzhak Rabin, and Special Branch

...to hand over more than AGBP20,000. Antiques dealer Gerald Duffy, 40, used the method outlined in Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel The Day of the Jackal to obtain a passport in the youngster's name and open a bank account with it.

In this article: Day of the Jackal, Lloyds TSB, and Frederick Forsyth

...knighted the next year. • Sir Andrew begins planning a sequel set in turn-of-the-century New York. With the novelist Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal), he creates new characters and a plot that has the now-successful Phantom building...

In this article: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom, Love Never Dies, Broadway, London, Frederick Forsyth, Ben Elton, and Cats

Frederick Forsyth, 71, is best known for his novels 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Odessa File'. He lives in Hertfordshire with his second wife, Sandy, and has two sons from his first marriage. Frederick Forsyth: 'Returns are minimal at...

In this article: Frederick Forsyth, Barclays, Inflation, Consumables, Recession, Hyperinflation, Bernard Madoff, and Royal Air Force

...aimed to stem the outflow of Irish composers, visual artists and writers. The measure also tempted British novelists including Frederick Forsyth, author of "Day of the Jackal," and Irvine Welsh, author of "Trainspotting," to move to Ireland.

In this article: Tax, Dublin, Carbon, Day of the Jackal, EU, Irvine Welsh, Frederick Forsyth, and Trainspotting

Book 20 -- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth The Irish Independent Lifetime Reads collection of 20 modern classics concludes tomorrow with Book 20, The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, an electrifying thriller about an...

In this article: Frederick Forsyth, Jackal, The Dogs of War, The ODESSA File, The Fourth Protocol, Edward Fox, and Colm Toibin

...spans the spectrum from great literary novels like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to great popular reads like Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal. Each Saturday a new book from the collection will be published and will be...

In this article: Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley, Midnight's Children, Strangers on a Train, Frederick Forsyth, Jude Law, and Colm Toibin

...in an era of extreme violence. Shakespeare? We'll get to that. The plot of "Martyr" recalls that of Frederick Forsyth's 1971 classic "The Day of the Jackal," in which an assassin, armed with the latest weaponry, sets out to kill French...

In this article: Francis Walsingham, England, English navy, London Bridge, and Philip Sidney

...by prosecutors to seize his assets. Antiques dealer Gerald Duffy used the method outlined in Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel The Day of the Jackal to obtain a passport in the youngster's name and open a bank account with it. Duffy...

In this article: Edinburgh Evening News, Frederick Forsyth, and Liverpool