Forsyth's first
Good to read Charles Cumming's piece about how The Day of the Jackal almost got overlooked ( The hit we nearly missed , 4 June). Could I just put in a plea for another overlooked group – publishers' readers. These minnows of the literary scene tend to be would-be authors themselves and read submitted manuscripts for the publishers (I did three a week for three years for Hutchinsons), for which they are paid peanuts.
Occasionally something good jumps off the page and that was my experience when I read Forsyth's first. Two previous readers had rejected it at Hutchinsons – crime readers who clearly saw the snag in publishing a story about something that never happened. The publisher had sent the manuscript back but when my report came in they got it back, though Harold Harris said to me: "You are too much on the side of the author, Jonathan." Luckily, he decided to go with it. So, of course, the editor gets the credit, but someone else had to read it first. And I did get my reader's fee – three guineas.
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Frederick Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal in just 35 days. This month marks the 40th anniversary of the novel's publication. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian In 1969, a young British journalist returned to London after spending 18 months
Good to read Charles Cumming's piece about how The Day of the Jackal almost got overlooked (The hit we nearly missed, 4 June). Could I just put in a plea for another overlooked group – publishers' readers. These minnows of the literary scene tend to be
It was then that my husband realized that his Spidey presence was requested for the fundraiser, not for the actual fourth day of July. “I'm going with Jackie the Jackal,” he said referring to the New Jersey Jackals mascot. (“He,” meaning my husband.
Forty years since 'The Day of the Jackal' transformed the thriller, its author Frederick Forsyth talks to Helen Brown about the curious allure of his cold-blooded assassin. By Helen Brown 8:00AM BST 21 May 2011 There's a bullet mark on the case of the
There's a bullet mark on the case of the typewriter that Frederick Forsyth used to write The Day of the Jackal. The damage was done during the Nigerian Civil War in the late Sixties, which Forsyth covered first for the BBC and then as a freelance
Paul Davis On Crime: The Day Of The Jackal - The Hit We Nearly Missed
Paul Davis, a U.S. Navy veteran and former Defense Department civilian employee, is a writer who covers crime for newspapers, magazines and Internet publications. He has written extensively about violent street crime, organized crime, drugs, gangs, cyber-crime, white collar scams, espionage and terrorism. Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. Today Davis is an online crime columnist and a contributing editor to Counterterrorism Magazine. He also writes crime fiction.
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL By FREDERICK FORSYTH - HC/DJ 1971: US $9.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Jun-22-2011 13:58:... 
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