Day of the Jackal - Audiobook - Frederick Forsyth

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Day of the Jackal, The

See Larger Image	Categories :	Crime Espionage Police Procedural Technological

	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	Frederick Forsyth
	Narrator :	Simon Prebble

	Length :	13 hours 23 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$22.99

Format :		Downloadable MP3

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© 2010 Blackstone Audio Inc

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#19 in the NPR “Top 100 Killer Thrillers” list.

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, operations chief of the O.A.S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.

France was infuriated by Charles de Gaulle’s withdrawal from Algeria, and there were six known attempts to assassinate the General that failed. This novel dramatizes the seventh, mostly deadly attempt, involving a professional killer for hire who would be unknown to the French Police. His code name was Jackal, his price half a million dollars, and his demand total secrecy, even from his employers.

Step by painstaking step, we follow the Jackal in his meticulous planning, from the fashioning of a specially made rifle to the devising of his approach to the time and the place where the General is to meet the Jackal's bullet. The only obstacle in his path is a small, diffident, rumpled policeman, who happens to be considered by his boss the best detective in France: Deputy Commissaire Claude Lebel.

FREDERICK FORSYTH was born in England in 1938. He settled on a career in journalism, working as a reporter in Norwich and then as the Reuters News Agency’s correspondent in Berlin and Paris, which provided the background for his best-selling novel The Day of the Jackal. He worked for the BBC for several years and then as a freelance journalist.

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