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.
Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series). O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.) First splitting of atom. Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength. Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
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