The 1960s, and French President Charles de Gaulle is the most closely guarded figure in the entire western political world. Several attempts on his life have failed, and the OAS still want him dead. Their plan is to hire an assassin - the best in the world. The deal is struck, and the hunt is on, and there simply can not be a smarter predator... but the prey is well protected...
The Day of the Jackal is definitely Forsyth’s best book - his masterpiece - and that is saying something! The book is arguably the finest thriller ever written, and as a political thriller, it is surely in a league of its own, classes apart from its competitors.
Riveting from the very first sentence, this incredibly informative, realistic and detailed work of art blends fact and theory so well that the reader never knows the difference. Forsyth’s research is so brilliant that it is very probably that even the theory is absolutely correct!
The book gives new meaning to the phrase ’unputdownable’, and the one can barely contain oneself between the rush to find out what happens next, and the need to absorb every single detail. The story races as fast as the assassin’s bullet, and ends in a simply spectacular and shattering climax, all the more stunning because it is completely true!!!