The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

A professional assassin is hired by the French paramilitary group OAS to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.

This book contains: alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, assassination, blackmail, deception, derogatory terms, explicit sexual activities/nudity, kidnapping, imprisonment, infidelity, murder, profanity, smoking, suicide (attempt), torture (graphic), and violence (graphic).