9 Best thriller books like The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

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The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond…

"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

If you liked the thriller plot in The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3) by Robert Ludlum

1. The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3)

By: Robert Ludlum

4.07

Format: 725 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each… read more

Similar categories in Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3) book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Learn always but never appear to be learning."

-Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3)

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2. Where Eagles Dare

By: Alistair MacLean , Clint Willis

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot tw… read more

Similar categories in Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Guns of Navarone

By: Alistair MacLean

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been dr… read more

Similar categories in Alistair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Pelican Brief

By: John Grisham

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's The Pelican Brief book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) by Martin Cruz Smith

5. Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fin… read more

Similar categories in Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

6. Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Universe, #6)

By: Tom Clancy

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At what point does crimanal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as… read more

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7. The Client

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...El… read more

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8. The Firm

By: John Grisham , Robin Waterfield

4.06

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Adaptation for younger readers. Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's The Firm book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Her thoughts could not escape the present."

-John Grisham, The Firm

"love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future"

-John Grisham, The Firm

"Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected."

-John Grisham, The Firm

"I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you."

-John Grisham, The Firm

9. The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)

By: Jack Higgins

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Desperate Adolf Hitler orders the impossible: kidnap or kill Winston Churchill. A disgraced war her… read more

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10. Eye of the Needle

By: Ken Follett

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more

Similar categories in Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

Similar categories in Michael Parker's The Devil's Trinity book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

12. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

13. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)

By: Tom Clancy

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so… read more

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14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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15. The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a… read more

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16. The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason Bourne Reenter the s… read more

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17. The Matarese Circle (Matarese #1)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Matarese killers will take over the world within two years... The No.1 bestseller from 'the wor… read more

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Cover of The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

18. The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal book and Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

19. Six Days of the Condor

By: James Grady

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan When CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues … read more

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20. The Client

By: John Grisham , Andy Hopkins , Jocelyn Potter , Janet McAlpin

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mark Sway is 11 and knows where a body has been hidden. If the FBI can find the body, then they can… read more

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21. Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2)

By: Tom Clancy

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguish… read more

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