The Day of the Jackal Unabridged edition

Known only as the Jackal, a super-assassin has been hired to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. His code name was Jackal, his price half a million dollars, and his demand total secrecy, even from his employers. Step by painstaking step, we follow the Jackal in his meticulous planning to the moment where the General is to meet the Jackal's bullet. The only obstacle in his path is one very excellent French detective, Deputy Commissaire Claude Lebel.