![]() ![]() “He broke through the same way, for example, that Joseph Wambaugh broke through the police procedural with “The New Centurions.” This book, this novel, very, very different than John le Carre’s 1964, “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” another mold breaker, by the way, another seminal novel. ![]() Writer John Weisman said Forsyth has always been a “template” for him. “For me as a writer and as a journalist, what I found most captivating was the way he wove details together to bring you in so that the outcome was almost an afterthought as a reader, but it was really how you got there that drew you in,” Youssef said. Diane and guests talk about the book’s enduring appeal and its unique place in the world of thrillers.įrederick Forsyth wrote the book in 35 days, Nancy Youssef said, but he researched it over the span of his career as a journalist. The book became an international best seller and won an Edgar Allan Poe Award when it was published 40 years ago. “The Day of the Jackal” is a fictional account of a plot to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle. ![]()
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