Introduced by Ken Follet

Illustrated by Tatsuro Kiuchi

Features:

Bound in paper printed with a wrap-around design by the artist

Red slipcase with round cut-out

15 integrated black & white illustrations\

Dark blue endpapers

9.5 x 6.25 inches

408 Pages

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.

This 1971 thriller was a worldwide bestseller and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It comes in a dramatic red slipcase with a die-cut hole. Through the hole you can see a silhouette of Charles de Gaulle with his trademark military cap. But slide the book out of its case and the silhouette becomes a mere detail reflected in the sunglasses of the assassin.

The story was inspired by a real plot to kill de Gaulle in the 1960s, which Forsyth fictionalized.