Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...
...like Carlos-or did he? He said he was Carlos-and then that he was not. At the end of the OPEC affair, one major question remained: Was the man who led the raid on the oil cartel's headquarters the terrorist known variously as Carlos and "the Jackal"? French intelligence was convinced that the leader of the attack was another person and that Carlos had been killed earlier by other terrorists. Israeli agents speculated that there might be not one but four Carloses...
...Jackal, Friday and Saturday...
...Jackal. A well put together thriller about the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle by a professional hit man hired by the O.A.S...
...well as bad literary judgment. The literary problem is that since Arafat is in fact not dead and the plot is not cast in the future, the reader knows that the assassination must fail. Frederick Forsyth managed to turn this liability into an asset in The Day of the Jackal. Black fails to do so, and the book's only suspense is in learning what form failure will take...