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The Day of the Jackal

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The Day of the Jackal	comment	Frederick Forsyth's most famous novel, by some margin.The year is 1963. Following a a deeply divisive and costly Civil War, French President Charles de Gaulle has granted independence to Algeria. His decision is seen as a betrayal by many of his former supporters. A disenchanted paramilitary group, the Organisation de L'ArmÃ©e SecrÃ¨te (OAS), has vowed to kill de Gaulle in revenge but each plot has failed. In desperation, the OAS turn to a mysterious foreign assassin, known only as "The Jackal", to carry out the job. The government learns of the plot, but know nothing of the would-be assassin besides his code name. So they call upon the best detective in France: Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel, who is given unlimited authority to capture or kill The Jackal, with only two requirements: no publicity, and do not fail.Forysth wrote the book in 35 days in 1970 (drawing heavily on his experiences as a journalist in France in the early 1960s); after several rejections, it was published the following year. It was adapted into a 1973 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Edward Fox (of the Fox acting dynasty) as the Jackal and Michael Lonsdale as Lebel.The Jackal is a far looser 1997 adaptation.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_1152876e	type	Faux Yay
The Day of the Jackal / int_1152876e	comment	Faux Yay: The Jackal pretends to be gay to sneak past a French manhunt, counting on the homophobia of the policemen to make them not bother to look closely.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
The Day of the Jackal / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: The Jackal's true identity.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_124469cb	type	Diplomatic Back Channel
The Day of the Jackal / int_124469cb	comment	Diplomatic Back Channel: When French intelligence learns that the sinister OAS has met with an Englishman who's an ace sniper, they contact British intelligence through back channels to inquire if any ex-military Brit sharpshooters are running around doing mercenary work. The British contact mentions one Charles Calthrop as an ace rifleman that's gone missing. A further connection is made when the suspect's code name, Chacal, is formed by combining the first three letters of his first and last names.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
The Day of the Jackal / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: Part of the reason the OAS hires an outsider to assassinate De Gaulle is because their own rank and file are littered with Action Service infiltrators, meaning their plots are quickly discovered and foiled.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Day of the Jackal / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The French Action Services and Lebel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
The Day of the Jackal / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: At one point a member of the OAS suggests that instead of hiring the titular Jackal to assassinate President de Gaulle (which will cost them a fortune they don't have) why not simply find a crazed fanatic who they can set to kill him in a Suicide Attack. The suggestion is dismissed by the other members on the grounds of it being next to impossible to find anyone who is simultaneously insane enough to agree to do so, and rational enough to follow a coherent complex plan to bypass de Gaulle's defences.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Day of the Jackal / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The last line of the book.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_19384952	type	Master Forger
The Day of the Jackal / int_19384952	comment	Master Forger: The Jackal acquires a set of false identity cards from a forger, who is not only able to make such papers but also advises the Jackal how to make himself look older (his plan is to disguise himself as an elderly wounded veteran so he can conceal a Scaramanga Special rifle in a set of crutches). He then makes the fatal mistake of trying to blackmail the Jackal for more money.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Day of the Jackal / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: In the climax, both Lebel and the Jackal recognize each other, and say the other's name before trying to open fire. Averted in the movie, where they each go right to trying to kill the other.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Day of the Jackal / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Lebel has to report to a committee full of them. Every day. On the British side is the Foreign Office bureaucrat who interferes with and hinders in the investigation simply because he doesn't like the French.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Day of the Jackal / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Jackal feels no animosity towards his victims, has no political or religious motivation - he's doing this for a paycheck. A large paycheck.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Day of the Jackal / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The Jackal points out that it would be far easier (and more practical) for the OAS to simply get a suicidal fanatic to jump de Gaulle than to spend a fortune on an assassin. The reason they don't go this way is the difficulty in actually finding someone who is enough of a suicidal fanatic to sacrifice their life, but also rational enough to do the job right. The Jackal goes on to point out that they obviously have not been able to produce such a man, given that they are trying to get him to do the job.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
The Day of the Jackal / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: With crocodile clips to the testicles. The subject dies.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
The Day of the Jackal / int_339b3062	comment	And the Jackal himself is soft-spoken, a Quintessential British Gentleman on the surface, and one of the most lethal killers around. The trope is lampshaded by Lebel when he notes that this is the most dangerous type of criminal, because no-one ever suspects them.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Day of the Jackal / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Meeting Charles de Gaulle in his private office, Roger Frey recalls one British journalist saying that de Gaulle is so full of elaborate old-fashioned courtesy that he resembles a "visitor" dropped in from the 18th century.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Day of the Jackal / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Lebel eschews fancy espionage tradecraft in favour of simply looking at the case deeper than the other guys. The novel's introductory description of him basically states that the key to his successful career wasn't any sort of brilliance, but rather his meticulous and thorough approach to any investigation. In fact, this is exactly how he catches the Jackal: During the Liberation Day parade, he goes around the security cordon and asks the gendarmes one by one until he stumbles upon one guard who let in a guy who fits the Jackal's profile. Similarly, he also doesn't rely on any fancy detective tricks to bust OAS's mole inside the French cabinet. He just bugs their phones. All of them. The French police obtain the guest records of all the hotels in the country and search through every single one of them for the signature of the aliases they know the Jackal could be using; this is followed up by searches through the birth and death records in the countries they know the Jackal was in for said aliases. In a pre-computer era when all records are on paper, this is an incredibly slow process, but it still provides them with all of the information they need to keep track of the Jackal. Need money to pay the Jackal? Just rob a bunch of banks and jewellery stores. Though as the Bank Robbery trope listing points out, they have to do it so much that they end up giving away that the OAS is up to something.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Day of the Jackal / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The Jackal's mission will fail, as De Gaulle died peacefully of natural causes several years later; the reader is reminded of this early in the novel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
The Day of the Jackal / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: The Jackal himself, though occasionally he snaps.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Day of the Jackal / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Jackal misses his target and is thwarted, but he dies without revealing his true identity, and he's killed multiple civilians over the course of the novel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Day of the Jackal / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Much of the Jackal's past is only hinted at. What country does he actually come from? How did he gain his deadly skills? Did he really take part in the assassination of President Trujillo, or was that also a Red Herring? We never find out. Before he took the codename of "Jackal", the OAS referred to him as "The Englishman" (because the other prospective assassins they considered hiring were German and South African), but all that proves is that he was living in England at the time he was hired, not that he necessarily was English.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Day of the Jackal / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Lebel and the Jackal (Chacal in French) develop a grudging respect for each other, without ever meeting — with the Jackal again and again evading Lebel's clever traps and Lebel again and again penetrating the Jackal's clever disguises. Lebel certainly appreciates the Jackal far higher than he does the government officials he has to work with. When they at last meet face to face they look for a split second into each other's eyes, Lebel saying "Chacal" and the Jackal saying "Lebel" before they scramble to kill each other. Lebel having been a split second quicker, he on the following day attends the Jackal's burial in a nameless grave, saying nothing to the handful of other people present.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
The Day of the Jackal / int_48da376b	comment	Game Changer: None of the OAS's efforts to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle succeeded, either because of poor planning (not getting the time of sunset correct) or because their ranks have been riddled with Action Service infiltrators. The Game Changer comes when the OAS leaders contract the services of a foreign assassin, about whom the French Secret Service know almost nothing.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
The Day of the Jackal / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Denise, the girlfriend of a (now dead) OAS member, beds a high-ranking French official so the OAS can learn about developments in the investigation and aid the Jackal.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Day of the Jackal / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The novel starts and ends with failed attempts to shoot DeGaulle. In both cases, a bullet missed his head by inches.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Day of the Jackal / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Lampshaded by Lebel when witnesses talk of what a perfect gentleman the Jackal is.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
The Day of the Jackal / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: The second reason why the Jackal is so hard to catch. Not only is he not on their files, the French intelligence agencies can't use their network of informants in the OAS either. The Jackal supplies his own weapon, false identities, and safe houses, only phoning a single contact who can pass on information from The Mole.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_55a28534	type	Fearless Fool
The Day of the Jackal / int_55a28534	comment	Fearless Fool: Charles DeGaulle is too ballsy for his own good. His Establishing Character Moment is being cool during the assassination attempt of the prologue, not ducking for cover as the car he's in is riddled with bullets, and even complaining that the men who tried to kill him had bad aim. As the investigation continues, the man pointedly refuses, against his advisors' insistence, to do some change, any change, to his lifestyle to try to confuse the assassin (and insists the investigation be kept secret to prevent embarrassment). The Jackal's plan almost gets executed to perfection because DeGaulle absolutely refuses to not do his duties on Liberation Day.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Day of the Jackal / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Colonel Rolland of Action Services asks the Unione Corse, the Corsican Mafia, for help locating the Jackal in exchange for reduced police pressure. The Unione does try to help Rolland, but aren't able to find any useful information.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Day of the Jackal / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted by Lebel, who is very effective at his job, but generally the French police force is (accurately) portrayed as being very good at catching criminals. Lebel is effective partly through personal talent but also through a very effective support structure at the national and city level. The police remain on the Jackal's tail throughout the plot. Played straight when they over-confidently think they will catch the Jackal soon and dismiss Lebel. This is explicitly invoked in the novel; Lebel expresses frustration at one point that the government ministers think the Jackal is escaping detection because he's "lucky" and that Lebel is incompetent. The possibility that Lebel is competent, but the Jackal is also really good at his job, doesn't occur to them. Also averted in that half the OAS's problems are because the Police are too good. Their operations and cells are penetrated and blown and in real life would be dismantled very soon after. Hiring the Jackal is an act of desperation because any other option would be detected and thwarted before they could try it. There is also a mild Offscreen Moment of Awesome when Lebel reports the results of a records check. In the ten previous years they've had to contend with four contract killers. They got three of them, and found out that the other one was in prison in another country. That's a 75% catch rate (with the only failure being due to someone else arresting the guy first) and a 100% detection rate — offering an early indication of just how hard the Jackal must work to evade the authorities.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Day of the Jackal / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Quite a few, but the most ironic one was Charles de Gaulle himself who's French, and therefore more likely to kiss a man on the cheeks instead of shaking his hand, thereby just dodging the Jackal's bullet. The otherwise well-planned opening assassination failed because Bastien-Thiery looked at an almanac for the wrong year and so misjudged when the sun would go down. As a result it was too dark for the gunners to see his signal and they opened fire too late. The leader of the OAS uses the Jackal's codename in front of his bodyguard, who is later captured by the Action Service. From this one mistake, the head of the Action Service deduces that the OAS have hired a Professional Killer and that De Gaulle must be the target.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
The Day of the Jackal / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Very subtly done. When the forger attempts to blackmail the Jackal, through his negotiations it gradually becomes clear that the Jackal is scoping out the possibility of anyone noticing if the forger simply disappeared. Defied by the gunsmith, however, who — while he doesn't actually tell anyone else — makes a point of informing the Jackal that he has a habit of storing incriminating evidence relating to his clients in a place which will be rather easy to find in the event that some strange and sudden misfortune should befall him. The Jackal gets the message and lets him go, although not without also making it clear that should anything about his dealings with the gunsmith become known, the Jackal will subsequently make it his life's work to hunt down and execute the gunsmith in as painful a method as possible. The gunsmith also gets the message.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_61c7f576	type	Sedgwick Speech
The Day of the Jackal / int_61c7f576	comment	Sedgwick Speech: Bastien-Thiery gives one before his execution. He thinks that real French patriots would never kill him. He's wrong.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Day of the Jackal / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Viktor Kowalski, the OAS courier, spends much of the novel fretting over his daughter, supposedly dying of leukemia. Ultimately he's captured by Action Services while trying to visit her in hospital. It turns out that she's perfectly healthy and they were using that as bait for a trap.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
The Day of the Jackal / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: The cop who is with Lebel when he goes after the Jackal at the end gets some characterization but is killed without much fanfare.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The Day of the Jackal / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: One reason why the Jackal's fee is so high is that he knows that he will never be able to work again after such a high-profile assassination, not to mention he will need to pay for a lot of precautions to keep himself hidden — every law-enforcement organization on the planet will be looking for him for the rest of his life, not to mention Gaullists seeking revenge.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_6b866d7b	type	Codename Title
The Day of the Jackal / int_6b866d7b	comment	Codename Title: The disgruntled OAS hires a professional assassin to subtract French President Charles de Gaulle. The assassin chooses the codename "Jackal" upon accepting the mission. The Day of the Jackal is the day he's chosen to commit the assassination.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Day of the Jackal / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name (also Fun with Acronyms): The Jackal is suspected to be an Englishman named Charles Calthrop, ergo Chacal, French for "Jackal". He actually isn't.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
The Day of the Jackal / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: The Jackal plans to assassinate Charles DeGaulle at a public event, notably the award ceremony on Liberation Day. Justified as it is the one occasion he can be certain the President of France will turn up, no matter what threats have been made against his life (DeGaulle is refusing to alter his schedule or live his life differently, but the Jackal doesn't know this, and couldn't count on it anyway).
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The Day of the Jackal / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
The Day of the Jackal / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: The Jackal repeatedly eludes the French authorities in this manner. In particular, he exits the Paris train station minutes before the police arrive to apprehend him. It isn't just luck or intuition though, he's being tipped off by an informant inside the French cabinet
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The Day of the Jackal / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Day of the Jackal / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Unsurprisingly, for a novel set in 1960s France and Britain. The Jackal chain smokes, as do most of the people pursuing him. A notable exception is Lebel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Day of the Jackal / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The forger who decides that it would be a very good idea to blackmail the rather sinister Englishman clearly up to no good who has already spooked the crap out of him once before. He learns why this is a colossal mistake a bit too late. Six Action Service agents attempt to apprehend Kowalski. In the ensuing fight, he incapacitates three of them before finally being overpowered.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
The Day of the Jackal / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: Lebel is abruptly dismissed by the cabinet in the belief that they can now find the Jackal without his help, but within days they are forced to recall him, as they have been unable to find the Jackal.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_7719cf90	type	It Began with a Twist of Fate
The Day of the Jackal / int_7719cf90	comment	It Began with a Twist of Fate: If the Action Service hadn't managed to lure away Kowalski and kidnap him after noticing the spike of OAS-related crime, they probably never would have learned about the Jackal (or at least not until it was too late).
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The Day of the Jackal / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
The Day of the Jackal / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: When Bastien-Thiery's lawyer apologetically tells him that his appeal for clemency has been denied, Bastien-Thiery just smiles and reassures his lawyer that "no squad of Frenchman will raise their rifles against me." He continues to believe this right up until the moment that the firing squad's bullets slam into his chest.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
The Day of the Jackal / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: The OAS has an insider close to a Government minister, who passes on information to the Jackal.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
The Day of the Jackal / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: The Day of the Jackal—when is it?
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Day of the Jackal / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Viktor Kowalski's girlfriend (a prostitute) wanted to abort their baby and Viktor physically kept her from doing so (after the girl was born, he gave her to a pair of friends without children).
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The Day of the Jackal / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Day of the Jackal / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: The police manage to track down the Jackal while following a false lead; in the final scene, after the Jackal is dead, they discover that the man they thought was the Jackal is still alive, and totally innocent.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Day of the Jackal / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The OAS are terrorists who tortured during the war in Algeria and are plotting to murder the President of France. The French security forces trying to thwart them employ brutal and illegal tactics, including kidnapping and torture.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
The Day of the Jackal / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: Done to a blackmailing photographer.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
The Day of the Jackal / int_8966382e	comment	Need money to pay the Jackal? Just rob a bunch of banks and jewellery stores. Though as the Bank Robbery trope listing points out, they have to do it so much that they end up giving away that the OAS is up to something.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Day of the Jackal / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The Jackal is the titular character and appears quite a while before Lebel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8ca73820	type	The Armorer
The Day of the Jackal / int_8ca73820	comment	The Armorer: The man who provides The Jackal with his customized take-down sniper rifle.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Day of the Jackal / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The colonel who is seduced into becoming a source of information for the OAS Honey Trap. He's an Obstructive Bureaucrat only concerned with his own ego and the sycophantic advancement of his career. No-one's sorry when he's exposed and has to resign in disgrace.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
The Day of the Jackal / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Sir Jasper Quigley, the British Foreign Office's "Head of France", is considered qualified for his job by a lengthy career of diplomatic postings to several countries other than France (where he climbed the ranks by having a keen eye for what his superiors wanted to hear, and tailoring his reports to fit), coupled with a healthy disregard and dislike for the French people in general and De Gaulle in particular.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_9b629c86	type	Pressure Point
The Day of the Jackal / int_9b629c86	comment	Pressure Point: Action Service men once demonstrate their knowledge of this.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
The Day of the Jackal / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The whole plot becomes a Race Against the Clock once the French figure out that the Jackal will make his move on Liberation Day, with the climax taking place on that day. The fact that the hit is targeted for a major event is justified by the fact that unlike a random simple Tuesday, De Gaulle's schedule on a major holiday cannot be casually altered at the last minute for security reasons. In any case, DeGaulle is far too proud to not make a public appearance on Liberation Day.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Day of the Jackal / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: The book often goes out of the way to describe just how well-dressed the Jackal is.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_a03509ce	type	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
The Day of the Jackal / int_a03509ce	comment	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Lebel remarks that the cabinet ministers he has to deal with think the Jackal is just some common criminal who keeps getting lucky. They have no idea how smart and dangerous he is. They learn this the hard way when they dismiss Lebel, thinking they can now catch the Jackal easily, only to find he has completely disappeared. They have to enlist Lebel's aid again.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Day of the Jackal / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Nearly every OAS member we meet has a personal reason to hate de Gaulle and want him dead.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_a49f4fb2	type	How Did You Know? I Didn't
The Day of the Jackal / int_a49f4fb2	comment	However, the OAS also has a mole inside the French cabinet, the mistress of one of the ministers, who coaxes information about the investigation from him via pillow talk and passes it on to the Jackal. She only gets found out after Lebel bugs all of the cabinet ministers' phones, culminating in a How Did You Know? I Didn't moment after the mole has been revealed and Lebel confesses to the cabinet that he bugged them all.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
The Day of the Jackal / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: The war veteran identity, which justifies the crutches in which he hides his Scaramanga Special.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Day of the Jackal / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Subverted: Charles DeGaulle's pride doesn't actually get him killed, but only by the narrowest of margins and a quirk of fate. The Jackal's outsider status. For most of the novel, his lack of a fixed identity is a huge asset, as is the fact that he's not French and therefore unknown to the country's authorities. However, when he finally goes to take his shot he misses because he did not expect DeGaulle to bend down to kiss a man on the cheek. The novel further suggests that this custom is foreign to "Anglo-Saxons." In a sense, the fact that the Jackal wasn't French meant he overlooked a key detail, which led to him being caught and killed by the police moments later.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Day of the Jackal / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Kowalski is a terrorist and a killer, but he's caught, tortured, and eventually killed all because he thought his daughter was dying of leukemia and tried to help her.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
The Day of the Jackal / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: The Jackal actually manages one shot at de Gaulle before he gets killed.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Day of the Jackal / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Several instances where the Jackal's precautions actually help the police: The Jackal gets a false passport to conceal his identity. The police detect this ploy, which (after a lot of trawling through the archives) gives them a name and a passport photo to use in the hunt. Had he gone by his real identity the police would never have left square one. He also steals two passports from men at airports to use as backup identities. Once the police realize this, they uncover his third disguise within hours. Though in total fairness on this one, under most circumstances any assassin who uses their real identity while carrying out a hit is simply begging to be uncovered and arrested. When the Jackal commits a murder, ostensibly to cover his tracks, it gives the authorities an opportunity to drop DeGaulle's secrecy provision and hunt him openly, as it's now a straightforward murder hunt. The Jackal steals the murder victim's car (having already abandoned his own car after finding out the police are looking for it). When they find the car abandoned near a provincial train station, this leads to them discovering the name and photo of his backup identity, and alerts them to the fact that the Jackal has made it safely to Paris. The movie tries to avert this by making it very clear that his (the Jackal's) own car is a total wreck by this point, hence why he nicked the car of the woman he murdered. However, it still leaves the very good question of why he didn't just hotwire the first 2CV he came across instead of stealing his victim's car, which is guaranteed to be the subject of an APB in hours at best. The Jackal brings only three bullets to the assassination. Even with supreme confidence in his aim, this gives him little room for error and only two spares in the event that the police show up. So after the missed shot at DeGaulle and the shot that killed the gendarme, even if he had managed to kill Lebel before Lebel killed him, he would have had nothing left with which to shoot DeGaulle again. The OAS go on a rampage of bank robberies and kidnappings to fund the Jackal's assassination attempt, and their leaders go into secluded lockdown in order to make sure that the people in the know aren't scooped up by the police... all of which serves to alert the police that something is up.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Day of the Jackal / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The British Prime Minister (unnamed, but heavily hinted to be Harold Macmillan) has a moment like this at one point; an inspector in his country's police has been approached by the French authorities to follow up on a seemingly minor but potentially crucial aspect on the case. However, the Prime Minister has every reason to block the matter; de Gaulle has sabotaged British entry into the European Common Market (and, by extension, the Prime Minister's career), his government is full of obstructionists opposed to the French on principle, he's going to be out of office soon and no one would know if he did anything. The Prime Minister's conscience ultimately wins the day and he instructs the inspector to give the French his full and complete help in the matter.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Day of the Jackal / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The forger tries to blackmail a professional killer, mistaking him for an upperclass British dilettante dabbling in the drug trade. He gets a Neck Snap and stuffed in a trunk for his efforts.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Day of the Jackal / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: Kowalski's French interrogators struggle with his Polish-accented French (there is also the fact that he is being tortured). Rolland realizes they have incorrectly transcribed several important words: namely, instead of referring to the Jackal as bon (good) and fÃ¢cheur (an irritating person), Kowalski was saying blond and faucheur (killer). From there, Rolland easily works out what the OAS is up to.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_b806516f	type	Chest of Medals
The Day of the Jackal / int_b806516f	comment	Chest of Medals: Zigzagged. The Jackal purchases a number of medals for his crippled veteran disguise. He then looks up what each of the medals is for and selects a subset of them that would make him look distinguished enough that anyone looking at them would accept that he is a wounded war veteran, but not so distinguished that anyone who recognizes the medals would want to know who he is or how he earned them. He ends up using just one bravery medal, and some campaign medals saying he served in North Africa and Normandy.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bb82c453	type	Modern Major General
The Day of the Jackal / int_bb82c453	comment	Modern Major General: Sir Jasper Quigley, the British Foreign Office's "Head of France", is a diplomatic equivalent; his primary qualification for the job is a long history of service in foreign postings everywhere except France, and an equally long history of betting on the wrong horse in every political race he's ever witnessed (if he hadn't married his boss's daughter while he was posted to Berlin in the early 1930's, his memorandum predicting that German rearmament would have "no real effect" on Europe's future might have put a bigger dent in his career).
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Day of the Jackal / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The Jackal is well-mannered and professional most of the time, but the moment you threaten to blow his cover, you're dead.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Day of the Jackal / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: When the Jackal is heading to Paris, he seduces a woman, which allows him to sleep at her place so he doesn't have to stay in hotels which would leave a paper trail. Having arrived in Paris, instead of looking for a suitable woman, he lets himself be picked up at a gay bar. He is not shown having any trouble finding the bar, and knows how to dress and act to get the right type of attention ... it's almost like he's familiar with the gay scene in Paris.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Day of the Jackal / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The OAS's spree of bank robberies draws the attention of French authority, who quickly realize something bigger's going on.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bd922dda	type	Gentleman Adventurer
The Day of the Jackal / int_bd922dda	comment	Gentleman Adventurer: The Jackal is characterized as similar to this type, albeit an evil version.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
The Day of the Jackal / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: One of the first things Lebel does upon getting his mandate to find the Jackal is to get his office its own coffee machine, on the logic that he and his second-in-command will be doing a lot of all-nighters.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Day of the Jackal / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: The Jackal does this a few times.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Day of the Jackal / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: President de Gaulle's legendary pride poses a problem for the investigators when the plot against him is uncovered; he refuses to cancel his personal appearances, take any increased action to ensure his safety or allow the security services to engage in a public manhunt for the Jackal out of concern of the embarrassment to both him and France.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Day of the Jackal / int_c5b47b36	comment	There is also a mild Offscreen Moment of Awesome when Lebel reports the results of a records check. In the ten previous years they've had to contend with four contract killers. They got three of them, and found out that the other one was in prison in another country. That's a 75% catch rate (with the only failure being due to someone else arresting the guy first) and a 100% detection rate — offering an early indication of just how hard the Jackal must work to evade the authorities.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Day of the Jackal / int_c601fc37	comment	The leader of the OAS uses the Jackal's codename in front of his bodyguard, who is later captured by the Action Service. From this one mistake, the head of the Action Service deduces that the OAS have hired a Professional Killer and that De Gaulle must be the target.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Day of the Jackal / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A fairly subliminal one, but in one section of the book it's mentioned that the head of British Intelligence plays cards at a club called Blades. Blades is from the James Bond series.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Day of the Jackal / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Just barely averted. For reasons of operational security, Jackal never tells anyone more about his plans than absolutely necessary (The OAS knows who the target is, but not when, where or how it is to be done. The gunsmith knows how the hit is to be done, but not who, when or where. Nobody else knows anything until Lebel starts deducing details) and comes within inches of succeeding. Had De Gaulle not bent over as Jackal was lining up his first shot and Lebel not intervened before he could fire a second, it would have worked.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_c8f21342	type	Clock Discrepancy
The Day of the Jackal / int_c8f21342	comment	Clock Discrepancy: The 1962 assassination attempt on De Gaulle failed because Bastien-Thiery was consulting the almanac for the wrong year and so misjudged when sunset was. This made it too dark for the gunmen to see his signal and they opened fire too late.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Day of the Jackal / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: We never find out the real name of the Jackal. Lampshaded by the final line of dialogue: "If the Jackal wasn't Calthrop, then who the hell was he?!" The forger is also unnamed. The Jackal's body would at least give investigators further clues to follow. Not just his fingerprints, but also — by the early 21st century — his DNA. DNA databases linking one person to another are becoming very extensive and this is known to investigators, even in cold cases. Anthropologists can study teeth and hair to not only know where the deceased was living (and eating) just before death, but even where they were born and raised. This is true even of the long dead, and we know that the Jackal is buried (not cremated) at the end; even though his grave is unmarked, the location is known and his remains could presumably be disinterred at a later date.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Day of the Jackal / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Rolland pieces together Kowalski's garbled confession and deduces that the OAS have hired a foreign assassin to kill DeGaulle.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_d80fb43b	type	Murder Simulators
The Day of the Jackal / int_d80fb43b	comment	Murder Simulators: Several assassins/attempted assassins are fans of the book or at least rumored to be. Carlos the Jackal got his nickname because he was mistakenly believed to own a copy. Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir was found to have a copy; while his assassination of Rabin was quite different than that the Jackal attempts on de Gaulle, it's easy to see parallels between Amir and Bastien-Thiery. Vladimir Arutyunian, who attempted to assassinate both George W. Bush and the President of Georgia, kept an annotated copy of the book as a how-to-guide.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Day of the Jackal / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: A man on British Intelligence's list of suspected assassins-for-hire has a name which suggests a Steven Ulysses Per Hero for the Jackal: Charles Calthrop ("Chacal" is French for "jackal"). He turns out to be a completely different person.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Day of the Jackal / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: A British citizen called Charles Calthrop is suspected of being the Jackal because nobody can find the man, he's got connections to international arms dealers (of some dubious legality) and it's a name so close to the assassin's Nom de Guerre that the authorities assume that it must be a case of Steven Ulysses Per Hero. While following this apparent lead does actually bring the police closer to finding the Jackal, it's not until the epilogue that Mr. Calthrop comes back to his apartment after a holiday and is revealed to have been a Red Herring all along.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Day of the Jackal / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: Not 100%, but that's the Jackal's aim. Witness the watermelon scene.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
The Day of the Jackal / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: One of the Jackal's disguises is as a Danish clergyman.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e1f9753e	type	The Handler
The Day of the Jackal / int_e1f9753e	comment	The Jackal prepares multiple identities in case his cover ID is blown, makes meticulous preparations for the hit, uses only two outsiders of his own selection (one to create false papers and the other to provide his rifle), and ensures his only connection with the informer-riddled OAS is a phone number to The Handler for The Mole who's providing him with information.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Day of the Jackal / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The OAS is so full of Action Service infiltrators that Rodin trusts only Montclair and Casson, and has to rely on an outsider, namely the title assassin, for the task. However, the OAS also has a mole inside the French cabinet, the mistress of one of the ministers, who coaxes information about the investigation from him via pillow talk and passes it on to the Jackal. She only gets found out after Lebel bugs all of the cabinet ministers' phones, culminating in a How Did You Know? I Didn't moment after the mole has been revealed and Lebel confesses to the cabinet that he bugged them all.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e7b73414	type	Sniper Rifle
The Day of the Jackal / int_e7b73414	comment	Sniper Rifle: No surprise. The Jackal has one custom made in .22 Magnum and able to be disassembled and concealed in a crutch. He does need to sight-in the scope.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
The Day of the Jackal / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: About halfway through the story, Lebel deduces that the Jackal, or "le chacal" in French, is a Brit by the name of Charles Calthrop. A subversion, as Calthrop is entirely innocent and unrelated.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Day of the Jackal / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: A would-be blackmailer gets this before the Jackal finishes him off. Of course, the Electric Torture to the penis and testicles...
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The Day of the Jackal / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Day of the Jackal / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Colonel Saint-Clair de Villauban from De Gaulle's staff, a disdainful, snobby and nakedly ambitious careerist whose primary contributions to the Jackal crisis are pompous recitations of things that everyone present already knows or condescending scepticism towards Lebel's many efforts, which he frequently attempts to pick apart and undermine partly out of snobbery towards the low-born mid-ranking police officer and partly so that he can make sure he's seen to be on the right side should Lebel's efforts fail. He is also The Mole, albeit unwittingly, but his unthinking willingness to blurt out everything that's going on to his mistress doesn't help the reader's opinion of him or his competence. Sir Jasper Quigley, a British Foreign Office official who hates de Gaulle, chews out a subordinate for helping with Thomas's investigation and openly "jokes" that he hopes Scotland Yard won't "try too hard" to stop the assassination. Besides being the quintessential Obstructive Bureaucrat, the book also discusses his chequered diplomatic career, including his support for appeasing fascism in the '30s.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_ed84457a	type	Consummate Professional
The Day of the Jackal / int_ed84457a	comment	Consummate Professional: The Jackal prepares multiple identities in case his cover ID is blown, makes meticulous preparations for the hit, uses only two outsiders of his own selection (one to create false papers and the other to provide his rifle), and ensures his only connection with the informer-riddled OAS is a phone number to The Handler for The Mole who's providing him with information. The gunsmith is both skilled at his job, respectful of his deals with clients, and knowledgable enough to avert Have You Told Anyone Else?.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Day of the Jackal / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The first mention of Lebel is in a newspaper that the Jackal is casually flipping through, stating that a senior police official had just died and Lebel had been named as his replacement. This takes place well before the French government learns that there is a Jackal and assigns Lebel to find him.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f180486d	type	Great Detective
The Day of the Jackal / int_f180486d	comment	Great Detective: Lebel.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Day of the Jackal / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The Jackal dines in rural France:
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
The Day of the Jackal / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: The Jackal is British and a Professional Killer. Or is he? At the end of the novel, Her Majesty's Government point out there's no proof, given his multiple identities, that he was ever British in the first place. The Brit who originally came under suspicion, Charles Calthrop, turned out to be innocent.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f4ade120	type	Scaramanga Special
The Day of the Jackal / int_f4ade120	comment	Scaramanga Special: The Sniper Rifle is disguised as a crutch.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Day of the Jackal / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: The Jackal takes this approach with anyone who compromises his mission, notably the forger who tries to blackmail him and his female lover, who finds his gun and realizes that he is planning to kill DeGaulle for the OAS.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
The Day of the Jackal / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: After providing the documentation the Jackal needs, the forger tries to swindle more money out of him, and follows up by not bowing to the Jackal's one request (that they don't meet at the forger's apartment for payment) when the Jackal accepts. The Jackal breaks his neck and stuffs his body in a trunk in response.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Day of the Jackal / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Kowalski, the huge Polish OAS member who is kidnapped by French security forces, goes down fighting and immobilizes three agents before the rest finally overpower him.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Day of the Jackal / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Of a sort. The reason the Jackal ultimately misses his target is that he wasn't expecting DeGaulle to bend down and give a man a kiss on the cheek instead of shaking his hand. It's implied that the Jackal forgot to consider this because he, as a foreigner, is not used to this French custom, but it's also fitting that the ultra-cool, unflappable Determinator assassin is thwarted by an act of affection.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_f98356f	type	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
The Day of the Jackal / int_f98356f	comment	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The OAS, as was Truth in Television.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Day of the Jackal / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones / Beware the Quiet Ones: Lebel is calm, soft-spoken, and keeps his mouth shut until asked. He has also taken down some of France's most powerful and dangerous criminals. And the Jackal himself is soft-spoken, a Quintessential British Gentleman on the surface, and one of the most lethal killers around. The trope is lampshaded by Lebel when he notes that this is the most dangerous type of criminal, because no-one ever suspects them.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
The Day of the Jackal / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: One of the Jackal's specialties, and why he's so hard to track. He prepares several identities he can switch between in case one gets found out, and is shown to be able to come up with new ones relatively quickly.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Day of the Jackal / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: The woman who is Spying on Saint-Clair lost both her brother and her fiancÃ© in Algiers, miscarried her baby and made an unsuccessful suicide attempt in the past.
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The Day of the Jackal / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Day of the Jackal / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work The opening assassination attempt really took place and is a very good re-creation. Not surprising, since Frederick Forsyth had covered the real-life events which inspired the film as a journalist for Reuters. Perhaps most notably the method where the Jackal gets a fake passport, getting a birth certificate from a person who died as a child. Forsyth got some criticism for revealing that method. In his defense, Forsyth was trying to call attention to the loophole so it would be closed, and almost the entire criminal world was already aware of the trick and had been using it for years. See this article for more — amazingly, they only really started to close the loophole after almost 30 years (a year earlier, hippie author Abbie Hoffman had refused to publicize the method in Steal This Book!, out of fear of governments closing the loophole).
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