The Day of the Jackal
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Canoe couple to repay nearly GBP600k...John Jones, who died in Sunderland in 1950. The fraud was copied in part from the plot of Frederick Forsyth's best-selling thriller The Day of the Jackal, but the Darwins added many complications of their own. At one stage, while... In this article: John Darwin, The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth, Panama, Leeds, and London |
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Jackal (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
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
The Day of the Jackal
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
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scotsman.com - Scotland | October 26, 2009
'Day of the Jackal' fraudster ordered to pay back GBP20,000
...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
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nymag.com: Theater | October 18, 2009
The Phantom Menace
...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
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Telegraph.co.uk - Your Money | October 01, 2009
Frederick Forsyth: 'I lost GBP2.2m in a share fraud'
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
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Independent.ie | September 07, 2009
Panel says government should tax water, property
...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
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Independent.ie | September 03, 2009
Thriller that's impossible to put down
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
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Independent.ie | August 20, 2009
Mr Ripley's talent for crime is sure to thrill...
...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
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washingtonpost.com | June 14, 2009
Book Review of Martyr by Rory Clements
...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
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scotsman.com - Scotland | January 15, 2009
Mother hails move to seize 'Jackal' assets
...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
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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.
The Day of the Jackal is a novel of the spy fiction genre, praised for its convincing portrayal of France in 1963, and its carefully thought-out plot. It received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. It also is notable for remarkably effective suspense, considering that the Jackal's target, president Charles de Gaulle, is a real historical figure who was not assassinated, and for its realism, exploring in detail aspects of intelligence, covert operations, and firearms.
While the OAS did exist as described in the novel, and the film opens with a remarkably accurate re-enactment of the Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry-led attempt on President De Gaulle's life, the remaining plot is fiction.
The story follows the efforts of an efficient, relentless assassin (hired by an exiled OAS high command) as he prepares to assassinate De Gaulle, and the efforts of an equally professional, but hard-pressed French detective assigned to identify and stop him, along with elements of intrigue and bureaucratic maneuvering at the highest levels of the French government.
- Name:
- The Day of the Jackal
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Genre:
- Spy, Thriller, Historical novel
- Written By:
- Frederick Forsyth
- Published By:
- Hutchinson
- Length:
- 358 pp (first edition, hardback)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 7 June 1971
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