'As gripping now as it was 50 years ago'
THE TIMES
 
'Masterful suspense . . . The Day of the Jackal changed the shape of popular fiction from the moment it was finished'
BEN MACINTYRE
 
'In a class by itself. Unputdownable'
SUNDAY TIMES
 
One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late.

1963. An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.

A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to reach. Only one man could do the job: an assassin of legendary talent known only as The Jackal. This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped.

But he is a man without a name, without an identity; a lethal spectre. How can you stop an assassin nobody can identify?
 
The task falls to the best detective in France - and the price of failure is unthinkable . . .