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The Day of the Jackal

Name: The Day of the Jackal
Author: Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Jackal 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.

“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”

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