The day of the Jackal

The Day of The Jackal is a 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth. It was in the Dutch translated by j. f. Niessen-Hossele under the title ' The day of the Jackal '.

The story is about an attempt on the life of president Charles de Gaulle. When life was De Gaulle hated by many loved by many but also because he was in favour of the independence of Algeria. In particular, the OAS was here vehemently against. There are more than six known conspiracies against his life. There are three of them actually resulted in an attack.



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[hide] *1 Content  ==Content[ Edit] == The story begins with the description of a failed assassination attempt on the president of France, Charles de Gaulle in 1962. Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was the mastermind behind this attack at the Petit-Clamart, part of the Paris suburb of Clamart. Members of the Organisation de l ' Armée Secrète (OAS) and of the group around Bastien-Thiry worked together and shot at the car of De Gaulle with machine guns. The attack failed and Bastien-Thiry is arrested and executed. The top of the OAS decision to apply a new strategy to eliminate de Gaulle: an assassin from outside the Organization should do the job. The originators of the attack only know the identity of the killer and are therefore protected by OAS veterans in an Italian hotel to prevent them by the French secret service, which has become leery though by the seclusion of the OAS-Summit, are kidnapped. An Englishman negotiates with the OAS about committing the attack. He is Jackal (Jackal) call.
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The Jackal examines his target accurately and learns that De Gaulle on 25 August, the day of the liberation of Paris always in the capital is to French veterans to decorating. The killer then begins to prepare. He asks to a new passport in the name of a young deceased child. This is possible because in England the birth and death registers were kept separated. He steals two passports (one of a Danish clergyman and one of an American student), buys all kinds of amenities to disguise themselves, such as make-up, hair dye and clothes. He also let a French identity card forging and asks a shady gun maker to build a precision rifle.

Although the OAS leadership is unreachable for the French secret service know this organization yet to kidnap a member of the OAS veterans. Although this man is a soldier and he has little knowledge, the pseudonym of the killer taken care of. Through the secret service know that knowledge to torture him loose to niggle. Police Inspector Claude Lebel is used to find the killer. Soon it turns out searching for a needle in a haystack to find the ' Jackal '. Desperately looking for Lebel contact with his colleagues in other police services in Europe. Scotland Yard comes up with the most interesting suggestion: a man named Charles Harold Calthrop would an assassin can be. Cha [Dylan] Cal [throp]) is abbreviated Chacal, the French word for Jackal. Than a cat and mouse game with the killer. The British soon find out under what name (Duggan) the Jackal has applied for his passport and also the other two identities are discovered. But the mole that the OAS in the French Government, always gives to the murderer by how far the authorities are and the Jackal escapes constantly. Again and again he changes of identity and disguise.

Lebel unmask the mole in the Government, but is still way behind on the Jackal. Then realizes the police inspector that De Gaulle on 25 August in Paris will come to the fore when decorating the veterans. There is a manhunt in Paris organized and all hotels are searched. The Jackal, however, hidden in the home of a homosexual with which he has aangepapt. On the 25th the killer up itself as an old French veteran with one leg. In his aluminum stool is the stripped down precision rifle. If an agent wants him to enter a House that is located in the secure zone, know the Jackal to convince him that he lives there. He goes inside and point his weapon on De Gaulle speaking to the veterans. The first shot is missing if the French president to embrace a veteran bends forward. Then storming Lebel with a French policeman inside. Lebel of the policeman had heard that he had to pass through an old, single legged man and realized that this had to be the Jackal. The agent is shot by the Jackal and Lebel knows in turn kill the assassin. ==Film Adaptations[ Edit] == The book was made into a film in 1973 by Fred Zinnemann, with Edward Fox as the assassin. The film is very true to the book; also in the film comes the frightening realistic seeming story clearly comes to the fore.Michael Caton-Jones made in 1997 a new version with Bruce Willis in the lead role with the title The Jackal . ==Canon<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The day of the Jackal was in may 2012 by the thriller connoisseurs voted the most important in the history of the crime thriller genre. The book ended up on the first place of the Crime zone Canon of the Crime literature. Frederick Forsyth the Crime in may 2012 zone received Award of Honor from the hands of Crime zone-editor-in-Chief Sander Verheijen.