Post Food Poisoning Bloating

The chain and the Jackal

My idea when I started this blag was not to fall in chains memes , and that sort of thing, I guess that claimed to be original in some way, but it does not matter as much. Is that I found on another website these instructions and I really liked:

1 .- Take the book you have at hand.
2 .- Go to page # 123.
3 .- Place the 5 to paragraph.
4 .- Copy it in your blag along with these instructions.

So it goes:

"But in order not to increase the thickness of the tubes, I bought metal too thin, too thin. By practicing the line pipe threads, for later assembly, was thin as paper. At the slightest pressure is doubled. To maintain appropriate internal measures to ensure that the widest part of the room fit in tubes and not have to diet too much material would have had to build a thick outer tubes that would have seemed natural. So I had to decide by stainless steel. "

-Frederick Forsyth, Jackal · (original title: The Day of the Jackal ) -

5 .- Important: Do not look the book more posh you are, or who likes everyone, or you want to believe that you have read, making you be more at your fingertips.
6 .- Tell us about the book in question.

In my case, this book (which had restarted a couple of days, incidentally) was literally at my hand to find that "post." It is highly recommendable for people who like the genre police / political / espionage. And for those not, is a good way to start.

Jackal is the first novel by Frederick Forsyth and for me the best of the 10 or so I read it. Contrary to what would happen after some of his works, in this, perhaps by the time (1963) in which it occurs, technology plays a minor role in the development of the plot and plans, and reverse shots other activities of the "Great Game." Yes, we have intercepted calls, forged passports, camouflage sniper rifles (the quoted phrase refers precisely to the manufacture of the weapon) but there is nothing that resembles a computer and of course we are far from magical devices today assumes an indispensable part of the lunch box a good secret agent. The agents' work is mostly detective, almost boring, to intelligence work is to collect all data on the subject in various parts of the country, passing through the sieve until one glaring by its relationship with another, and begins to outline a place, a name, a face, a passport, an arrest ... This book

has not, as many of those who came later, the clearest dichotomy East / West but the Jackal the "bad" movie in this story, is the country of the author, England in books post would usually be identified with the side of "good" to put it in some way. In this story, a group of French military rebels who want to murder Charles De Gaulle hires a British murderer (if you're gonna die, you kill a gentleman ) to eliminate the General / President.

The book starts slow, presenting the historical and political context (Forsyth was a journalist, and in fact De Gaulle suffered several attacks against them by the OAS mentioned here) and as a funnel is closed gradually over the plan, its execution by a professional , the discovery of the plan by French agents, the steps being taken to the infiltration of the OAS that the government suffers, the failure of actions against the unknown murderer, and elegant relentless advance it towards its goal . A tug of war on both sides by the cunning traps, effort and persistence on the part of both the cold handle the silent hired as commissioner in charge of preventing a crime he knows nothing (or scheduled date, neither the place nor the identity of the murderer), except that if it occurs will become a scapegoat for powerful men.

Something else that catches my attention Jackal compared to other books that Forsyth wrote then is treatment given to the murderer, by the way the plot is built around their actions and reactions (has a large ability to improvise when one of the steps in your plan is affected) comes to seem at times the hero of the story. And in fact the hero is a detective story that makes its appearance only at half the book, but the mercenary English has many features that characterize the heroes of the author's subsequent books.

The Jackal , for example, is a crafty type, competent and focused on your goal, which has a past and perhaps military training (like the protagonists of The Negotiator, The Fist of God, or The Avenger) and is an officer or soldier who prefers to act alone and to disregard certain rules (as well as valuable but undisciplined Jason Monk, Sam McCready and Quinn fulfill their mission but not the protocol that their fussy bosses require ). Furthermore, the Jackal , like the protagonists of The Dogs of War, The Negotiator and to some extent The Manipulator, not miss the opportunity of a female conquest, although it is the only one he drops his prey so cruel.

face of this character, whom we kill with total coldness when necessary for safety or to the implementation of its plan, the commissioner of police superiors who have "Loaded the dead "is a small guy, calm, quiet, timid ... you come to mention it is dominated by his wife. I have not seen a villain or a hero with such features as marked in later novels by Frederick Forsyth, but I think a brilliant way to play with the characters and their roles within the detective scenario and action.

Jackal has appealing characters, but not really got inside, maybe that does not give much needed in this type of book. It is instead a story that develops and unwound very revealing some surprises, tension is rising until, like a funnel, comes suddenly and explosively as the firing of a hired murderer ... and never fails.

7 .- In fact, paragraph 6 did not originally exist but could not resist the temptation. I think so, this becomes more interesting, además no me bastaba con un “copy / paste” y un “read / type”. Algo más tenía que tener este “post” y creo que lo tiene, además de que no incluye “spoilers” (mierda que me faltan palabras en castellano). Para cerrar, una frase más del libro, tomada de la página 306 de mi edición:

“El claro de luna convierte al hombre más civilizado en un primitivo”. (El mismísimo Chacal )

Esta frase no va antes de una escena de disparos, persecución o pelea, sino de sexo. Vale la pena leer este libro, en serio.