“Day of the Jackal” by Frederick Forsyth
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One of the best international thrillers ever written.
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The plotting of that novel was impressive, and taught me more about plot vs. plotting than 10 years of experience. To bring such a story to life, even when you know De Gaulle wasn’t assassinated, showed the hand of a master.
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One of the first thrillers I read. No one does it better!
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‘Book Zero’ in terms of recent thriller evolution.
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One of my favorite books.
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This ground-breaking novel has captured the imaginations of readers for decades, and with good reason. It’s a paragon of suspense, character development, and fascinating period detail. If you want to read just one book about political France in the 1960s, just one book about a lone assassin, just one book that is at the same time beautifully written, this is the book for you.
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One of the books that first inspired me to write espionage fiction, and one I return to again and again. I think I’ve gone through three paperback copies already. Forsyth is no great stylist, but that’s not a disadvantage here: it reads like a documentary in novel form. Plausible, realistic, authoritative, really exciting. Wonderfully executed. A classic.
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Absolutely not to be missed. Terrific yarn—suspenseful, tense, and clever! And you wind up rooting for the bad guy! How often does that happen?
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