Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780099557364
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2012
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
The 50th anniversary edition of one of the most celebrated thrillers ever written



'A year-zero genre reboot that defined the modern movement toward detailed, procedural narrative, where the intrigue is about how, not just what.' LEE CHILD



'Utterly compelling ... And they say genre fiction can't be art' THE TIMES (Our favourite 50 novels of the past 70 years)



'As gripping now as it was 50 years ago' THE TIMES

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50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY LEE CHILD




One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late.



1963. An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to reach.




Only one man could do the job- an assassin of legendary talent known only as The Jackal.




This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped. But he is a man without a name, without an identity; a lethal spectre.




How can you stop an assassin nobody can identify? The task falls to the best detective in France - and the price of failure is unthinkable.

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'Masterful suspense . . . The Day of the Jackal changed the shape of popular fiction from the moment it was finished' BEN MACINTYRE, THE TIMES




'In a class by itself. Unput