The Day of the Jackal

crawling all over these houses and trying to find things.

One of the safe houses next to a bookcase where Carlos stashed his weapons is a copy of the book that came out in the 70s called Day of the Jackal.

It's a famous novel by Frederick Forsythe.

It's about a glamorous international gunman who has a luxurious lifestyle, loves beautiful women, but wants to kill the president.

Question eight, which omnivorous predatory canine appears in the title of the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth? [cheerful jingle] A jackal.

The Day of the Jackal.

Question nine, what type of weather phenomenon is the Fremantle Doctor? [cheerful jingle] Wind.

It's the local name for the cooling afternoon sea breeze that blows across Perth during the summer months.

Well, I hope that they'll appreciate the book as the untold story of the greatest manhunt in history.

One of my favorite books growing up as a kid was The Day of the Jackal, written by Frederick Forsythe.

Of course, that was fiction.

And it was always my ambition to write a work of narrative nonfiction that had the drive and narrative force of a story like The Day of the Jackal.

And I wanted to kind of nonstop you are there action, which is why I wrote the book in the present tense.

So other than the information, and I hope, Maybe this is not the right word to use in a book about these monstrous people, but I hope it also entertains people.

Well, I hope that they'll appreciate the book as the untold story of the greatest manhunt in history.

One of my favorite books growing up as a kid was The Day of the Jackal, written by Frederick Forsythe.

Of course, that was fiction.

And it was always my ambition to write a work of narrative nonfiction that had the drive and narrative force of a story like The Day of the Jackal.

And I wanted to kind of nonstop, you are there action, which is why I wrote the book in the present tense.

So other than the information, and I hope, Maybe this is not the right word to use in a book about these monstrous people, but I hope it also entertains people.

Ilich promoted himself throughout the 1970s and 1980s as a Marxist revolutionary fighting for the Palestinian cause.

Illich picked up his alias Carlos during his time in a group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the 1970s and the Jackal from the Guardian newspaper after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal was found in a London apartment where he had hidden weapons in 1975.

Joby, welcome.

Pleasure to be with you, Roland.

Jan, you and I talked about this, uh, you know, for a while one day.

You, you know, you read the, if you ever read The Day of the Jackal, I mean, there's been a, there's been a, there was a made for TV m- movie that went somewhat- Oh, that's De Gaulle? Yeah ...

and, uh, and then but then there was also another movie.

I didn't see the second movie, but, um- Mm-hmm ...

The reporters are excited, they're looking at all this material, and writing up the report the next day, one of the reporters mentions It's a line of color.

You know, if you're a reporter, you're trying to paint a scene, and he sees that this briefcase with weapons is leaning against a bookshelf, and on the bookshelf is the novel by Fred Forsythe called Day of the Jackal.

It had just come out.

It becomes a blockbuster, but it's a story about a mysterious international hitman who tries to kill the French president, and he's glamorous, and he chases women, so this is the jackal of the novel.