![]() In 1972, The Day of the Jackal won the Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Not only did this 1971 release perform better than anticipated, it set the author on the way to becoming one of the leading crime writers of the late 20th century. His stab at a thriller was undertaken to address his financial problems. The writer had produced a factual book about the war in Biafra, which took place in the late 1960s, but it hadn’t done too well. When Frederick Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal, it was a shot in the dark.
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