The Day of the Jackal: The legendary thriller, now a major TV series starring Eddie Redmayne

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth is a thriller set against an urgent manhunt to stop an assassination. This edition is presented as the legendary thriller, now a major TV series starring Eddie Redmayne.

Synopsis

In 1963, an anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of the French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle. After a failed attempt the previous year, the target is expected to be almost impossible to reach.

The assignment is given to an assassin of renowned ability known only as the Jackal, a killer described as remorseless and deadly, with no name and no identity. With the stakes set at an unthinkable cost, the task of stopping him falls to the best detective in France, who must find a way to catch an assassin nobody can identify.