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...JACKAL...
...Jackal makes one appreciate anew the wonderful narrative efficiency of the movies. Frederick Forsyth's bestselling novel-essentially what mystery buffs call a police procedural, but blown up to international proportions-kept losing its basically simple story line in the forest of words...
After The Day of the Jackal any new book by Frederick Forsyth is likely to come on as a literary conglomerate. Flaunting its paperback and film sales, Reader's Digest condensation, etc., Odessa does just that. Its list of book clubs reads like the tag end of a distinguished obituary-member of Literary Guild, Saturday Review, Book Find and Playboy. Despite such signs of prosperity, the book is a mixed offering...
...Jackal, Forsyth...
...Jackal, Forsyth...