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...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...
...police are searching for a 6-ft., 190-lb. man with stringy blond hair. Deputy Chief George N. Beck says that a psychiatric profile describes the killer as "a jackal ... a loner, some guy who probably lives like a hermit and only creeps out of his hole to commit these horrible crimes." The police also say that he could be a homosexual. The killer preys on defenseless men of small stature in their 40s or 50s, knocks them unconscious with blows to the head and slits their throats with a large sharp hunting knife. Then, before fleeing, he usually removes...