The Edgar Awards Revisited: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Best Novel; 1972)
By Pritpaul Bains
May 10, 2019It is cold at 6:40 in the morning of a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. So opens Frederick Forsyth‘s The Day of the Jackal, on the entirely non-fictional 1963 execution of Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry, a key cog of the Organisation Armée Secrète…