The Day Of The Jackal (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Author's first novel. Overall good. DJ: price clipped; minor tear along the edges; some shelf wear; preserved within mylar. Pages: yellowed endpapers. Binding: board is clean and square. Book has been read with no major defects.
In the simmering political heat of early 1960s Europe, a professional assassin known only as The Jackal is hired by a shadowy faction of the French OAS to do the unthinkable: kill French President Charles de Gaulle. Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal is a masterwork of procedural suspense, chronicling in meticulous, almost documentary detail the cold, methodical preparations of the killer — the forged identities, the custom-built rifle, the painstaking reconnaissance — set against the frantic race of a lone French detective who must stop him before the trigger is pulled. Forsyth's genius lies in his ability to manufacture unbearable tension from a historical outcome already known to every reader, a feat of narrative architecture that has cemented this novel's place as one of the defining thrillers of the twentieth century. His prose is clinical and authoritative, stripping away sentimentality to present a world of ruthless competence on both sides of the hunt. First published in 1971, the novel set the gold standard for the political assassination thriller, influencing a generation of writers and filmmakers. Whether you are discovering it for the first time or returning to its ice-cold pages, one question will grip you from the first chapter to the last: can he really be stopped?
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Hutchinson of London
Genre: Thriller
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Author's first novel. Overall good. DJ: price clipped; minor tear along the edges; some shelf wear; preserved within mylar. Pages: yellowed endpapers. Binding: board is clean and square. Book has been read with no major defects.
In the simmering political heat of early 1960s Europe, a professional assassin known only as The Jackal is hired by a shadowy faction of the French OAS to do the unthinkable: kill French President Charles de Gaulle. Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal is a masterwork of procedural suspense, chronicling in meticulous, almost documentary detail the cold, methodical preparations of the killer — the forged identities, the custom-built rifle, the painstaking reconnaissance — set against the frantic race of a lone French detective who must stop him before the trigger is pulled. Forsyth's genius lies in his ability to manufacture unbearable tension from a historical outcome already known to every reader, a feat of narrative architecture that has cemented this novel's place as one of the defining thrillers of the twentieth century. His prose is clinical and authoritative, stripping away sentimentality to present a world of ruthless competence on both sides of the hunt. First published in 1971, the novel set the gold standard for the political assassination thriller, influencing a generation of writers and filmmakers. Whether you are discovering it for the first time or returning to its ice-cold pages, one question will grip you from the first chapter to the last: can he really be stopped?