In 1970 he had enough of the war and returned back to the UK. He began to work on a novel about an assassin in job of the OAS a stop to consult on president De Gaulle. Forsyth used for his novel the knowledge which he had acquired when he worked as a correspondent for Reuters in Paris.The OAS or Organization de l'Armée Secrète committed between 1961 and 1963 more than a thousand attacks in France. The group wanted to use this setting to prevent that Algeria would secede from France. Their biggest opponent was De Gaulle on whom three attacks. Forsyth place 'his' attack in 1963, after the attack of lieutenant colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry in Petit Clamart in 1962.He wrote the book in thirty days and he processed a large number of things in the book, which are based on careful research. Issues such as the applications of a false passports or the making of a sniper rifle. This Forsyth introduced a thriller that looks like a documentary. Each little nugget is checked, each street, square, be monistic or official is correct.Despite all these efforts the book was initially refused until publishing Hutchinson the manuscript purchased and spend The Day under the title or the Jackal. The book was a best-seller and is now televised twice.
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