Questions about the 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. The novel is about a professional assassin's attempt to kill French president Charles de Gaulle. In 1973, the novel was adapted into a film directed by Fred Zinnemann. Use this tag with the [frederick-forsyth] tag.

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