Actor Adrien Cayla-Legrand as Charles de Gaulle in The Day of the Jackal (Photo: Getty/Mondadori) Legend has it Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal in less than six weeks, in January and February 1970, at a rate of 4,000 words a day, every day, for a total of 140,000. The notion came back to him almost seven years later. He mused on the idea for a minute, before changing beats and moving on. Therefore, Forsyth further concluded that the only way for the militants to hit their target would be to hire an independent foreign assassin as yet completely unknown to the French authorities. De Gaulle survived, as he did every time, because, Forsyth concluded, the vicious and far-reaching French secret service had all the militants under constant close surveillance.
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