Day of the Jackal – 4/5 Stars This is a thriller/suspense novel from the English writer Fredrick Forsyth, and is the basis for the film by the same name (and the less less good film with Bruce Willis from the 1990s). The novel is written in an incredibly straightforward, all facts and no real style (though competently and compellingly), and tells the story of a Right-wing militia group in France planning for the assassination of Charles de Gaulle in the early 1960s. The group is […]
It is cold at 6:40 in the morning of March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
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