For all the moaning minnies complaining about the story having been abridged, please try to remember that someone has not only taken the time to load this recording to KZread purely for the enjoyment of total strangers around the world, but they have also written a synopsis and warned that the book has been abridged. If you want an unabridged version I'm sure that you can find such a thing. But to come to the comments section and repeatedly complain just seems so very rude. How spoiled and entitled we have become! It was not so long ago that such a phenomenon as KZread wasn't even imagined in the public mind! We all had to buy our own recording,if we missed the programme on the TV it was gone forever. Now people gripe and nitpick as though they were paying for a top of the range service. Come on people! Get a sense of proportion, rummage around and rediscover your sense of humour and be grateful for these little pleasures in life! None of us wants to go back to the days of not having them! Lecture over! 😂

@JosephRawsonWorks

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for including your comment among the griping and complaining comments. It fits like a glove.

@Al_NERi

6 ай бұрын

I for one am very grateful to access this audio book, however abridged (no big whup) I'm currently in hospital and this is great relaxing (but anything but boring) material to keep me occupied quietly.

@scottlaughlin2447

6 ай бұрын

The word abridged often means that the "sense of place" has been stripped away. Abridging is not doing the original author justice. So I continue my search for the original version.

@peternoble3691

6 ай бұрын

Here, here!

@JavierBonillaC

6 ай бұрын

Excellently said!

The best modern thriller ever written.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

@kamuelalee

8 ай бұрын

@@annabellagardner3190 Yes, I read the full "The Day of the Jackal" novel back in high school many years ago and well before the Internet. As I've said, I think it's the best modern thriller ever written and sparked other great writers of thriller novels in modern times including Ken Follett.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

@@kamuelalee Le Carre.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

@@kamuelalee Preaching to the converted lol. It's brilliant read, I too read it years ago and later the unabridged audiobook, that too was very enjoyable.

Loved George Sewell as Col. Alec Freeman of UFO.

@stephenholmes1036

6 ай бұрын

Agreed

@glasgowgallus247

4 ай бұрын

Absolute classic, superb👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I have it on dvd and have watched it many times. It never gets old! I love the untrigue, the mystery, the chase. Is a Foresigh Masterpiece! Kudos to the Author!

I read this book in 1971or 1972 and saw the movie when it came out. …… both are excellent!!

thank you, one of F F great stories read by the wonderful George Sewell

Great novel, and brilliantly read by the late George Sewell. Thank you for posting this. 👍

What a great movie, thoroughly enjoyed listening to this as my minds eye watched Edward ' The Jackal' Fox stalking de Gaulle. Marvelous.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

A masterful novel. Even abridged: it's delightful to hear

Viewed the Edward Fox film, found it superb! Well acted, directed and cinematography perfect. Highly reccomend. Very provocative,,,,,Sewell a very gifted narrator indeed! For those who engaged in the audio book...

great book that was well read for us by George Sewell .

No complaints here chief: grayeful for all the hard work... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Read by a wonderfully voiced actor. George Sewell was a good actor. I can almost see the film version as I listen to this gripping story. The film which starred Edward Fox was excellent. The remake, made by Hollywood of course, was dreadful and silly and not even close to the original story.

@charlessmyth

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure that Frederick found the cheque useful :-)

@joserafaelzepeda-garza9971

8 ай бұрын

Wollywood crap

Great to hear this once again. I remember these when I was a lot younger, 2 x 100 minute cassettes, I had a few of these original audiobooks of different stories which got me to read the books. Maybe in the thing to say is if youre expecting the whole thing don't forget this is possibly from the 80s so was abridged to fit those 2 Cassette tapes, there was no CDs or Data media to record 10 hours of story, it would have been a huge amount of cassettes. This is a great nostalgia for me. Thank you very much for uploading this.

The wonderful Sir George Sewell

I enjoyed the movie with Edward Fox as the Jackal many years ago.

@ianmangham4570

Жыл бұрын

Great movie

@lloydbraun6026

Жыл бұрын

Saw it in the theater. Great movie and all the actors were superb

@karlmeyer9473

Жыл бұрын

Oh dear. You remember his face. Phut phut said the silenced pistol.

@glynnjacobs9602

Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT movie!

@dittohead7425

Жыл бұрын

​@@lloydbraun6026 a😊

One of the great audiobooks. Thank you so much for this. And the 1973 movie, starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale, is not to be missed.

@joserafaelzepeda-garza9971

8 ай бұрын

And many of great actors like Sir Derek Jacobi

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

Enjoyed it thanks Narrator was absolutely fine

Thanks for this. I had these tapes years ago, when I was a kid. George Sewells versatile voice made it thrilling.

I got so obsessed by this book in my college days,that I read it SIX times.The guys thought I had flipped. When Forsyth came to a Mall in my home city I completely missed him. UNBELEAVABLE

@20chocsaday

8 ай бұрын

It amazes me that such a high proportion of the comments are from non readers.

@elaineedgar2913

8 ай бұрын

Bearing in mind Forsyth’s political stance, you wouldn’t have missed much. I just wish l could separate the writer from his almost fascist political views.

@20chocsaday

8 ай бұрын

@@elaineedgar2913 If you read all kinds of books you don't worry about the author's views, just make note of them and read the text. Non fiction is a different matter. That can be relevant.

I have always liked this story, both book and film. My only minor criticism is the welding with a soldering iron nonsense.

@jessisage4708

8 ай бұрын

Lol! Right soldered that thing right to the chassis!

The Original film was rare in that it was just as good as the book. Love both. Believe it or not the film is my 'Feel good movie' :/

@ross942

Жыл бұрын

5

Superb story. George Sewell such a great voice

They should have the version with David Rintoul. It’s not a performance, it’s a tour de force! His French is impeccable, welsh accent of Brin Thomas, H e performs w different Doctors and they all sound different. It’s fabulous! He is fabulous!

@cynthiaslater7445

Жыл бұрын

The unabridged version read by David Rintoul was the first time I heard this story. Yes, indeed, he was the best at this one!

@kathryngrant2676

Жыл бұрын

@@cynthiaslater7445 Do you know what he is mostly doing now? Performing voices of characters for video games! What a waste of a magnificent voice and talent. I have a whole host of books I wish he would perform.

@michelleclark8099

Жыл бұрын

@@cynthiaslater7445 Simon Prebble does a great narration. Around 11 hours.

@jimmyh8090

Жыл бұрын

Do you know where that version is pls ,I can't find it anywhere , thanks Jim

@brianperry

Жыл бұрын

I have a few Forsyth audio books read by David Rintoul .. he's brilliant..

Excellent gripping story well read by George Sewell

Many thanks for posting, m8. Great listen. 🙏🙏

Love George Sewell a great English actor brilliant in UFO

The unabridged version is a great one to have in the library. Frederick Forsyth's autobiography is quite good as well.

I have the Audio book read by David Rintoul, its just over thirteen hours long, Its a great yarn, a great film which unusually follows the book quite accurately. The actors were brilliant, Edward Fox who plays the contract killer..cold, calculating and utterly ruthless...and Micheal Lonsdale trying to find him hampered by political expediency..

George Sewell, great voice

Thank you. ❤️✅

Great narrative.... brilliant

Excellent prose and reader. Thank you from Amsterdam.

@greatbooksontape782

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Didn't realize anyone from Amsterdam was listening. That's nice to know.

George is a determined and efficient reader :-) Thanks for posting :-)

Thank you so much!!! Bravo!!! Well Done!!!

I loved the film when i first watched it around 14 or 15 years old whenever it is on television i always watch it,it is never not exviting & nailbiting ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 thankyou to the person who got this together & posted this,good narration by George Sewell,Paula,England x

Thank You 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thanks!

A great listen, thanks!

Great book, well read. I remember George Sewell from many films.

Thanks so much, I listened to this many years ago

Thank you very much

THANK YOU!!!!! I've been looking for this all over KZread for years, and finally I have gound it!

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

great old film to,thanks for sharing,xx

Very enjoyable-thank-you!

So well read. My favorite in this genre. Well this and The Key to Rebecca and The Man from St. Petersburg by another author. They have in common the everyday pursuits of ordinary people in grand and dangerous political schemes. People love to say:” it’s none of my business” but Nations and their politics are always run out on a day to day basis by the ordinary people, whether compliant in political crimes or in resistance to them!

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

Fantastic reading of a great story.

Brilliant

The novel that turned me on to novels. Great book, thanks.

Read this one awhile back and enjoyed it. Thanks for the reading here!

Despite a good performance by the narrator this epic book has been so drastically cut it has lost the gradual tension that makes it so unique. Alan T

@purdy9170

2 жыл бұрын

I agree ..the book is a classic ..the film of 1972 was very good too ..

@derekt5026

2 жыл бұрын

Abridged version should be in title Great book and film

@Barnaby_bo

2 жыл бұрын

@@derekt5026 it is

@michelleclark8099

2 жыл бұрын

A lot is still packed into 2 hours in this version, versus the 11 hours version.

Excellent. Very enjoyable.

Good story thanks

Excellent reader👍👏

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

Watching the movie (1973) now as it happens. Enjoying it tremendously.👍🏻

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

@bosshoss64

8 ай бұрын

@@annabellagardner3190 thank you😃

Narrated by George Sewell, aka Col. Alex Freeman from the cult series UFO!

I’ll never forget my mother’s reaction when my sister got arrested for presenting a fake ID after a car wreck.. She did it like in the book, got the birth certificate of a baby that died.. So, the police officer told my mother she got the idea from the movie, The Day of the Jackal, and my mother corrected him telling him she got the idea from the Fredrick Forsythe novel, The Day of the Jackal.. Lol..

@greatbooksontape782

7 ай бұрын

Good Story! :-)

Great book.

@j.dunlop8295

2 ай бұрын

The author knew the wanker DeGualible's body guards! How the story developed!😅 great book!.

I have many Forsyth books. I enjoyed them all.

Awesome

Many thanks 🙂🇮🇪🍀

Worked in Kodak many years ago in Ireland. There Europe training center was in Genoa at the Harbour.. beautiful part of the world. 🙂🇮🇪🍀

Fantastic book. I learned a lot that they don't tell you about.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

@20chocsaday

8 ай бұрын

@@annabellagardner3190 I have.. Long ago and seen a TV version years afterwards. I don't have the paper book any longer, there was a queue to read it after me. Every book must have stopped somewhere on the circuit but that sometimes happened at a life changing event, like marriage.

@mark8544

8 ай бұрын

​@@annabellagardner3190 reading your post I'm positive you cut and post the same reply multiple times....

Excellant narrator

Up there with that other Great voice, Mr Burton.....

Just wow!!! Thanks for the upload! Loved it!

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

Such a brilliant book. And this was narrated perfectly. But some fantastic scenes have been cut - Kowalski's fight with the French intelligence heavies, for one.

@greatbooksontape782

Жыл бұрын

Yes. This seems like a good case for reading the book and getting the whole story after listening to the abridged audiobook. It's the same with some movies based on books.

@cnashford2

Жыл бұрын

@@greatbooksontape782 Wonderful response 👍🏾 because this abridged version and the comment by @GoodYeoman definitely made me wanna read the full book! But I appreciate this one since my book group is mere days away from meeting & I won't have time to finish the full book. Thanks for posting and God bless. 🙏🏾

I haven't heard this version before, it was very good. I've watched the original film many times, also the paperback, I now have the unabridged version read by David Rintoul and Audible which I've listened many times. I've 634 Audible books plus over 100 cds also some unusable tapes due being mangled or snapped. I don't use the cds much as the my cats keep opening the top or pressing the buttons. Good narrative can bring a book to life.

@michelleclark8099

2 жыл бұрын

Simon prebble good narrator of this.

@michelleclark8099

2 жыл бұрын

I love the audio narrated by Simon Prebble. Perfect. 2 parts totaling around 11 hours of audio.

@ulyssesjefferson8589

2 жыл бұрын

What's your cats favourite reading?

@ellenthorne8222

2 жыл бұрын

@@ulyssesjefferson8589 any that mention especially the cat who series where the word is mentioned.

@carlo_cali

2 жыл бұрын

🐱

Two mice are eating a movie tape in an archive. One says: "The book was better".😉

@HalideHelix

5 ай бұрын

Lol....just stop 😂

@ricardojordanjordan2216

Ай бұрын

Yes but still a great movie

Pretty much all of Forsyth's stories involve some adventure in smuggling. The way he depicts the smuggling of the custom rifle was always intriguing to me even if a few details here and there are unconvincing

Fabulous, so well read. The voice was perfect for the book. I think I'll listen to it again, so much information in it too.. Thank you.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

Excellent presentation.....much respect!

An abridged mockery of the full book!

@plazpastic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was wondering where the playlist was for the book. Then I scrubbed to the end of this and sure enough, Jackal is blasting away at de Gaulle.

@rosselliot8971

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. I'm guessing about half the book has been cut, perhaps more. Shame since Sewell's reading is terrific.

@onthemantlepiece422

Жыл бұрын

@@rosselliot8971 A lot more.

@mgkelly3389

Жыл бұрын

It’s a short story.

Nice, as far as it goes but so many parts are missing. Thanks

Read by George Sewell.. who played Mendel in the original ITV series, Tinker Tailor.

@chrisst8922

Жыл бұрын

BBC

I like both movies the American and the English one, Both are good! The Jackel is one of my favorite stories!

dziękuję

@greatbooksontape782

3 ай бұрын

cieszę się, że to lubisz

George Sewell was not only a great tough guy actor but was hilarious in The Detectives, a spoof on British police dramas, with Jasper Carrot and the Nations favourite lovey, Robert Powell. He played their exasperated boss... Catch it if you can.....

Brilliant tightly written fiction with real flavour of the sixties thankyou.

Watched the epic film over 20 times

@michelleclark8099

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best ever made.

@greatbooksontape782

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Now I'll have to check it out.

@josephsmith3908

2 жыл бұрын

Epic film

@JazzFunk22

2 жыл бұрын

Fooking love the film 🎥

Is that an abridged version. I read it a long time ago and for some reason I though it was longer.

@thornil2231

2 жыл бұрын

sorry, it says that in the description.

The Jackal shoots from the sixth floor of a building.. is that the only reminder of the assassination of JFK?

They don't make them like they used to excellent movie

@brianperry

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Its all done with annoying camerawork like that used in the Bourne series plus the ridicules martial arts piffle these days..... Day of the Jackal had all that was needed to make a brilliant film.. and Zimmerman succeeded.

I was just a bit disappointed that The Jackal missed! Otherwise it was a thoroughly enjoyable listen.

@GenericWhiteBitch1980

Жыл бұрын

Why did I look at comments 5 mins before the end of the book! 😭😫 I really wanted him to hit too ☹️

@klientproby

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember in the film version as well, how I was annoyed that the Jackal missed.

@VLind-uk6mb

9 ай бұрын

@@klientproby There seem to be several people here who have it in for Charles de Gaulle. What did he ever do to you?

Very enjoyable. Michael Lonsdale, who was superb as Lebel in the 1973 film version, would also have been a good choice to read this. Likewise Derek Jacobi, who appeared in it as well in a minor role. Today, Lonsdale’s performance would lead to a series of movies about Lebel.

I was 2/3 of the way through The Odessa File when KZread pulled it down without explanation. Is there any way you could repost it here?

good read

Could you please upload the tinker tailor tape if you find it. This was charming.

A good audiio story made from famous novel & movie

The love of money motivated the fellow to attempt the crime Which probably accounts for Other assassinations No conscience needed just a killing machine!

@jeanettesdaughter

9 ай бұрын

Yes and but no. Money is a powerful motivator. At the same time, a killer must kill and would find a way to do so. He is as likely our neighbor as not. Such people are perfect for grand schemes and political crimes. And of course the technologies needed to strike and fade are incredibly expensive. The actual villains are their employers. Plus mini villains along the way help the evil deed! Forsythe has the wisdom to give his assassins many admirable qualities. How far are any of us from the impeccable “ fiend?” Who in the end like all of us makes a mistake.

You don't happen to have The Odessa file read by Patrick Allen

Amazing book and great film. The shitty Bruce Willis version will not be mentioned.

I can dip into the book at any point and savour the characters, even in scenes not involving the Chacal. Each is fleshed out and a story in itself. So educational. The film is true to the book though it turns the Welsh detective into a Northerner. If the film had been made a decade later then Charles Dance would have been perfect in the title role.

@govansquared4759

11 ай бұрын

there could never be anyone better for that rôle than Edward Fox

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I am positive you should read the full book. It is so very much better that this. More characters fascinating attention to factual details supporting characters and places making the entire book riveting. A great deal has been edited out from the 10+ hours unabridged audiobook. Do read/ listen, to full book it's 100% more enjoyable and you'll love every minute. 👍🙃 Ps. This abridged version is more like a 'trailer' to actual book.

Too many interesting parts about the Jackal evading capture cut out. I think the unabridged audiobook would be 25 hours long.

@govansquared4759

11 ай бұрын

have you read the fourth protocol ?

I don't think this audio book or the movie made on Fredrick Forsythe's famous novel, is able to do justice to the literary caliber of the author. The real wonder is in reading it, and conjuring everything up in your mind.

@charliewest1221

Жыл бұрын

Yes, most certainly. This audo version is disappointing.

I can only picture him berating the detectives (Jasper carrot)😂

It's a shame they cut so much of this out. I'm sure there was more than this. The interrogation part for example. I'm sure the whole tjing was explained in the book.

@michelleclark8099

Жыл бұрын

This is a short version. There is also an 11 hour 2 part audio version read by Simon Prebble.

@Pmcinspection

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that. I read the book years ago it took me a lot longer than 2 hours 17 minutes. Brilliant book I'm going to dig it out and read again.

I’m confused as to how the discover that the jackal is using Dugan as his cover, Calthrope is the name given to the Service agent so where does the discovery of the Dugan identity occur.

@starryeyes2067

Жыл бұрын

Hi Joshua, Apparently this has been compromised by edits, so that information may be missing. If you watch the movie (free online), it will be clear. I'd tell you if I could remember. I know the movie doesn't have any plot holes. An amazing adaptation. All the performances are brilliant.

@brianperry

Жыл бұрын

The name Dugan was taken from a child's gravestone who died very young this name was used to obtain a false passport. Interestingly the name Charles Calthrope was a play on the word 'Cha cal' the French word for Jackal... it was the name of a possible assassin at the very beginning of the story. Read the book or watch this excellent film all will become clear..

@VLind-uk6mb

9 ай бұрын

You're not listening. It is made quite clear here that he goes to a graveyard, finds a dead child, researches the family and gets copies of the birth and death certificates from the vicar, and on the strength of that gets a passport. It's all in this reading, quite early on.

@annabellagardner3190

8 ай бұрын

The full book is 13 hours. Every single important detail has bees edited out. Do get the full book, it's amazing and a really enjoyable read/listen. Your question is definitely answered. I won't spoil it, hoping youget the unabridged book.

Greatly edited

@greghill7759

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean badly edited?