The Day of the Jackal

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by Frederick Forsyth

“The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”—The New York Times

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with  opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his  profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the  world's most heavily guarded man.

One  man with a rifle who can change the course of  history. One man whose mission is so secretive not  even his employers know his name. And as the  minutes count down to the final act of execution, it  seems that there is no power on earth that can stop  the Jackal.

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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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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.

— Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal