Jackal (The Day of the Jackal)
The Jackal is a male literary villain who features in The Day of the Jackal.
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Biography
The 'Jackal'
He planned to continue working as an assassin until he has enough money to retire. The money paid him for assassinating two German engineers, thus delaying the development of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Al Zarifa rocket, had been enough to keep him in luxury for several years, but the offer of US$500,000 from the OAS to kill de Gaulle gives him the opportunity to retire early. Despite his concern over the "security slackness of the OAS", he finds the job too tempting to turn down. However, he insists that the OAS commanders in charge of the plot must not disclose the matter to anybody, and suggests they stay somewhere under heavy guard until the assassination is complete.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, the Jackal was described as being a tall, blond Englishman in his early thirties living in Mayfair, London.
Powers and abilities
He came to use a number of identities that included:
- Alexander James Quentin "Alex" Duggan :
- Per Jensen :
- Martin "Marty" Schulberg :
- André Martin :
- Charles Calthrop :
Notes
- The Jackal was created by Frederick Forsyth where he featured in The Day of the Jackal universe.
In other media
Films
- In The Jackal, the Jackal appeared in the setting of the 1997 live-action remake film where he was portrayed by actor Bruce Willis. This version was an assassin hired by an Azerbaijani mobster to assassinate the First Lady of the United States as revenge for the death of his brother in a joint FBI-MVD raid, and characterized as a sociopath who takes pleasure in killing. He was pursued by agents of the FBI and the MVD, as well as Declan Mulqueen, a former Irish Republican Army sharpshooter who seeks revenge because the Jackal shot his former lover Isabella Zancona, causing her to miscarry their child. In the end, after Mulqueen thwarts the assassination and saves the First Lady's life, he and Zancona both gun down the Jackal. As in the novel and first film, the Jackal's real name was never revealed to both the investigators and the audience.
Appearances
- The Day of the Jackal:
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