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Summary
Frederick Forsyth's 1971 thriller about a professional assassin hired by the OAS to kill Charles de Gaulle, and the French police detective who pursues him across Europe. The novel is noted for its meticulous procedural realism, its coldly professional protagonist, and its influence on the spy-and-assassin genre.