num_pages: 105
description: THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH“ The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”— The New York Times The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with  opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his  profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the  world's most heavily guarded man.One  man with a rifle who can change the course of  history. One man whose mission is so secretive not  even his employers know his name. And as the  minutes count down to the final act of execution, it  seems that there is no power on earth that can stop  the Jackal.
language: English
title: The Day of the Jackal
titlecomplete: The Day of the Jackal
characters: Jacqueline Dumas, the Jackal, Claude Lebel, Victor Kowalski
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 132697
places: Paris, France
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Martin Beck Award, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Longman