We'll need a nickname. For example, a Jackal. No other names are needed. You don't need names when you're talking about one of the best assassins in the world. Only such a man can hit an equally protected target, the President of France, General de Gaulle. And while the hunter inevitably goes to his victim, the best detective in France, Commissioner Claude Lebel, leads his hunt for the hunter... The novel by the classic of action-packed literature by Frederick Forsyth, based on the real confrontation between the French special services and the far-right terrorist organization SLA, was first published in 1971 and is still included in the list of the hundred best detective novels of all time..