THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

     This time, I read a book called "THE DAY OF THE JACKAL" by Frederick Forsyth.

     A secret organization plans to assassinate the French president, General de Gaulle. Their leader, Colonel Mark Rodin, decides to hire a professional, someone unknown to French police. He and his men choose "the Jackal". Can police detective Claude Lebel stop the killing and save the president's life?

     In London, the Jackal was making a careful plans and reading everything he could find about or by General de Gaulle. The main question in his mind was:'Where, when and how shall I do it?(p.8)     

     Part One describes Jackal's preparation for the assignment. He first acquires a British passport written a false name. Then he steals the two passports of the two foreign tourists.
     After make the  false passport, he travels to Brussels, where he commissions a master gunsmith to build him a special rifle of slimness with a small supply bullets.

     'I need a rifle which can be put together and taken into pieces,' he continued, 'and which will fit into a narrow metal tube.' He described in more detail exactly what he wanted.(p.11)     

     The man opposite looked carefully at the passport first, noticing that it was new, and then looked carefully at the Englishman. He studied the driving certificate for a few more minutes. 'Not difficult,' he said. 'Is that ally want?'
     'No, there are two other papers.' The Jackal described them in detail(p.13)     

     He also needs a set of French identify papers, he asked professional forger to make it. But, professional forger makes the mistake, then the Jackal kills him and hide his body in a large trunk. After researching a series of books and articles about De Gaulle, the Jackal travels to Paris to found a most favorable spot and the best day for assassination.
     This part is my favorite part which is because the process of preparing assassination is described very accurately, and I could easily imagine the views.

This book was tough enough to read all of pages in a week for me, even so this book was really interesting.