Jackal by John Follain

Jackal by John Follain

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 Qadhafi, and the true nature of the Kremlin Connections. John Follain shows how the CIA and French intelligence compromised their own statutes by giving agents progressively freer license with murder and collateral damage in order to capture him. A cautionary tale of governments that fostered the image of an invincible criminal mastermind--in reality a pawn in the chilling cold war chess game between East and West--Jackal also provides fascinating insight into the making and mind of the world's most wanted terrorist.

Since 1998, JOHN FOLLAIN has covered Italy for The Sunday Times. A Death in Italy: The Complete History of the Amanda Knox Case, The Last Godfathers, and Zoya's Tale on an Afghan resistance fighter, which has been translated into fourteen languages, are among his past works. For his interview with the Knox family, he was named runner-up for the 2006 Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism and was nominated for the 2008 Magazine Journalism Awards.

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ISBN 13	9781611450262
ISBN 10	1611450268
Title	Jackal
Author	John Follain
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2011-07-01
Number of pages	344
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