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.
Weakest. Tommy is in prison. His son, Ryan, is now 17. Catherine the cop's sister, Clare, takes Ryan to visit Tommy in prison, without telling Catherine. Not good. Sisters have a break when Catherine finds out. Plot two: PE teacher, abusive to wife. She is getting drugs from local Indian/Pakistani pharmacist. Husband finds out and has wife arrested! Pharmacist worried . . . plots to kill husband. Wife agrees, then changes her mind. Pharmacist in a rage kills her. (All a bit of a stretch, as he is a mild mannered family man.) Tommy escapes from his court hearing, hides out, gets in touch with Ryan. Plan is to go to Marabella, Spain together. Tommy's "helpers" get worried about Tommy and decide to do him in. Instead, he kills them . . . and is knifed himself. He returns to Catherine's house, looks through a photo album showing Catherine took good care of Ryan, and decides not to kill her....
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