To the Ends of the Earth: Hunt for the Jackal - Softcover

Yallop, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552127639 ISBN 13: 9780552127639

Publisher: Corgi, 1994

Synopsis

In 1985 David Yallop set out to find the world's most wanted man, real name Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos, or Carlos the Jackal. It took him 8 years to find him and his search took him to the ends of the earth. More dramatic than Frederick Forsyth's legendary bestseller, this destined - like 'In God's Name' - to be a worldwide bestseller.

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Synopsis:

On Friday 27th June 1975 a young Venezuelan burst from a Paris apartment into the world's headlines. He left four men dead, having previously lobbed a grenade into a crowded cafe, attempted to assassinate the president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain, seized the French Embassy in Holland, and launched two rocket attacks on planes at Orly Airport. He went on to kidnap OPEC ministers in Vienna. He is known to the world as Carlos, and the press dubbed him the Jackal. David Yallop tracked Carlos down in a small village in the Bekaa Valley outside war-torn Beirut, and through two long nights he listened to part of his story. Then the trail went dead, and for the next seven years Yallop tried to rediscover the Jackal. But what began as a manhunt became a journey into a world of terrorism, espionage and Middle East politics, and in this book Yallop tells the story of that hunt.

About the Author:

David Yallop's previous book, In God's Name, was translated into nearly forty languages, sold more thna 4 million copies worldwide, and won the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for the best non-fiction book of the year in 1984. It was an investigation into the death of Pope John Paul I. His other books are To Encourage the Others, which has twice forced the British Governemnt to reopne the Craig/Bentley murder case; The Day the Laughter Stopped, a biography of Fatty Arbuckle that pothumously rehabilitated him and soved a 50-year-old murder mystery; Beyond Reasonable Doubt?, which led directly to the release from prison of a man serving a life sentence for double murder, and Deliver Us From Evil, an investigation that established the truth about the Yorkshire Ripper seven months before Peter Sutcliffe was arrested.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0552127639
• ISBN 13: 9780552127639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800