"It’s a larger-than-life story, and the Jackal, with his drinking, womanizing, and penchant for violence, is a larger-than-life protagonist. Hoag leans into his lifestyle with her prose, and at times the work reads more like a thriller than a biography. Despite all the necessary exposition, the author manages to keep the pace very brisk, and she depicts her subject with a pitch-perfect combination of horror and grudging fascination.

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Particularly exciting is Hoag’s account of the 'Rue Toullier bloodbath,' in which the Jackal was very nearly caught and only escaped by shooting his way past members of the Direction de Surveillance Territoire, the French domestic security equivalent of the FBI. 'I’m not in the habit of killing,' the Jackal astoundingly said at one point, after a lifetime of killing. 'I kill all those who betray me.' Hoag deftly explores such contradictions in all their enduring mystery ... employing an impressive amount of research; the text is supported by an extensive bibliography and endnotes."

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