The Day Of The Jackal by Forsyth, Frederick - 1971

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0091073901 . SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with the date (notated in European style and dated 1971) on the reverse of the half title page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping, and thin strips of fading to the very edges. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has generalized light toning and there is light edge wear, light tidemarking and beginning nicking to the spine ends. "Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full-length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971. It became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name. In Forsyth's second full-length novel, The Odessa File (1972) , a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in contemporary Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being shielded by an organization that protects ex-Nazis, called ODESSA. This book was later made into a movie with the same name, starring Jon Voight, but there were substantial alterations. Many of the novel's readers assumed that ODESSA really existed, but historians disagree. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author .