Jackal The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal

Name: Jackal The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal
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ISBN: 9781611450262

ISBN-10: 1611450268

ISBN-13: 9781611450262

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Follain

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On an August night in 1994, French counterespionage officers seized the world s most wanted terrorist from a villa in Sudan. After more than two decades on the run, Carlos the Jackal had finally been caged. For years he had murdered and bombed his way to notoriety. Jackal is the definitive biography of this self- proclaimed professional revolutionary, ladies man, and cold-blooded killer. Setting his story against the larger political picture of the time, it exposes how the Soviet bloc and some Arab regimes sponsored terrorist actions for their own ends during the cold war. Jackal reveals the web of intrigue, blackmail, and fear that guaranteed Carlos s survival, the helping hand of Colonel…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

John Follain is an investigative journalist and author. He was a correspondent for Reuters in Paris from 1993 to 1997, where he researched and wrote the Carlos story. He is now bureau chief of the Associated Press in Rome.



Principal Characters


List of Illustrations


Prologue



Marx and the Holy Cross



Training for Terror



The Drugstore Saint-Germain



Secrets and Lies



An Awful Party



The Renegade Revolutionary



A Match Made in Hell



A Dirty, Private War



Licensed to Kill



Forced Out of the Cold



Exorcising the Ghost



Betrayal and Revenge



The Jackal Caged



The Trial



Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgements


Bibliography


Index