Word: forsythe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JACKAL by Frederick Forsyth. 380 pages. Viking...
...Author Forsyth seems less efficient. In chronicling the plots and ploys of the Jackal and his enemies, he produces far too many shifts of focus, step-by-step itineraries and logistical minutiae. He inventories the furnishings of De Gaulle's office, and feels compelled to specify that the chauffeured, black Citroën DS 19s circle the courtyard of the Elysée Palace counterclockwise. But on such things as how to steal a passport or select an assassination site, his expertise is extraordinarily compelling...
...Forsyth may be in the vanguard of a rather queasy-making literary trend. Readers do, inevitably, identify with the assassin, and what he has, briefly, in his telescopic sights is a heroic and honored chief of state. General de Gaulle is dead, of course. Earlier this year, though, Harper & Row issued Who Killed Enoch Powell?, a thriller-mystery predicated on the murder of a British Member of Parliament, notoriously disliked as a racist, but very much alive. What titles will come next? Ho, Sweet Homicide? Tell Them Willy Brandt Was Here? Sunset on the Pedernales...
...York last year state and fed eral engineers announced plans to put a six-lane highway along the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable...