![]() The attack is ostensibly motivated by de Gaulle’s decision to grant independence to the state of Algeria. The first part, “Anatomy of a Plot,” starts in 1962 in the aftermath of a failed attempt to kill de Gaulle made by Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry. ![]() The Day of the Jackal is split into three parts and an epilogue. It is loosely modeled after a real-life assassination attempt made on de Gaulle in the 1940s. Widely considered one of the best mysteries of the twentieth century, it received one of the genre’s highest honors, the Edgar Award for Best Novel, in 1972. The contractor races against two detectives commissioned by the French government, as well as the English Special Service, to complete his task. ![]() The Day of the Jackal (1971), a thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth, follows an unnamed English assassin hired by a French paramilitary terrorist organization called the OAS to kill France’s President, Charles de Gaulle. ![]()
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