Index Of The Day Of The Jackal -

The real-life President of France, whose 1962 decision to grant Algeria independence triggered actual assassination attempts by the OAS, providing the historical foundation for the novel. Significant Adaptations

Inside were hundreds of index cards — white, cream, some yellowed with age — each one typed with a single line of information. Names. Dates. Locations. Code words. They were arranged not alphabetically, but chronologically, each card representing a single day in a operation that had begun in the summer of 1962 and had ended, violently, in the late summer of 1963. Index Of The Day Of The Jackal

: The book is indexed into three distinct sections: The real-life President of France, whose 1962 decision