Saw the movie years ago. Writing (Frederick Forsyth) is excellent. This is a "how to" book based on an attempted assassination of de Gaulle. Since we know de Gaulle died of natural causes, we know this fails. So the interest is in the method of the assassin. Background--French humiliation in Indochina and then again in Algiers. Right wing disgust with de Gaulle. Hire 'hit man' rather than a politically motivated killer because the protection is so tight. Early chapters discuss hiring of killer, building of the rifle, and the procurement of phony documents.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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