1971 The Day Of The Jackal : Frederick Forsyth : 1st/1st Hardback In Jacket
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THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
By Frederick Forsyth
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1971. First Edition, First Impression. Hardback book with dust jacket. 357 numbered pages.
CONDITION
A very good first edition in a very good unclipped dust jacket. No writing or names. Pages clean throghout. Dust jacket good with no tears or damage. Overall very good.
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassi...n who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel remains popular, and in 2003 it was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
The OAS, as described in the novel, did exist, and the book opens with an accurate depiction of the attempt to assassinate de Gaulle led by Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry on 22 August 1962. However, the subsequent plot is completely fictional.
By Frederick Forsyth
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1971. First Edition, First Impression. Hardback book with dust jacket. 357 numbered pages.
CONDITION
A very good first edition in a very good unclipped dust jacket. No writing or names. Pages clean throghout. Dust jacket good with no tears or damage. Overall very good.
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassi...n who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel remains popular, and in 2003 it was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
The OAS, as described in the novel, did exist, and the book opens with an accurate depiction of the attempt to assassinate de Gaulle led by Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry on 22 August 1962. However, the subsequent plot is completely fictional.
