false<![CDATA[The Day of the Jackal]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175635385m/540020.jpg540020591792180book1972Chacaltotal:1654|5:591|4:653|3:352|2:46|1:12|16546727207412353falsefalseFri May 30 09:22:43 -0700 2008Sat Apr 05 12:41:02 -0700 2008Fri May 30 09:22:43 -0700 2008
The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth's 1972 Edgar winner for Best Novel, was perhaps even more satisfying than reading it for the first time (can it really have been 36 years ago?) I would never quibble with the committee's choice on this one.
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Standing in the assassin's way is an unimposing French detective named Claude Lebe...more...]]>
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Frederick Forsyth shines and deservingly so for the amount of research he puts into his projects. This one is regarding an attempt to assassinate Charles De Gaulle, the French President, narrated ...more...]]>
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He orders the group to be crush...more...]]>
40falsefalseSun Aug 02 17:33:28 -0700 2009Sun Aug 02 17:40:05 -0700 2009 The story unfolds from several perspectives. Early on, you se...more...]]>
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The Day of the Jackal is as excellent as I was led to believe it would be. The story concerns an assassin known only as The Jackal, who is contracted by the right-wing OAS to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. The OAS actually existed -- it was an organization designed to prevent Alg...more...]]>
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It's amazing how dated everthing in it is. How easy it was to forge documents and penetrate security controls in ...more...]]>
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"Lebel..."
I will read this book every so often till I die because, despite the difference in law enforcement technology, this is an iconic work of detective fiction. The work is so careful restrained that, true the cover, one really does want to cry ...more...]]>
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