The Day of the Jackal - Race Against Time to Find the Jackal
Lebel:
Excuse me, but it has just occurred to me that we have forty-eight hours in which to find this Jackal.
Lebel:
Am I right in assuming that the President has no engagements outside the Elysee Palace today, tomorrow and Saturday?
Minister:
None.
Lebel:
And what is Sunday, August the twenty-fifth?
Minister: [Slaps forehead]
Of course! Liberation Day!
Lebel:
That's what he's been waiting for.
Minister:
We must have been blind.
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The Day of the Jackal - Identifying the Key Detective in a Crisis
Minister:
Commissioner Berthier, any suggestions?
Berthier:
We're in trouble on this one. Our agents inside the OAS can't pin him down, since not even the OAS knows who he is. Action Service can't destroy him; they don't know who to destroy. The gendarmes, all forty-eight thousand of them, can't pursue him; they don't know who to pursue. The police can't arrest him. How can they? They don't know who to arrest. Without a name, all other proposals are meaningless. The first task, then, is to find it. We get a name, we get a passport and a face. And with a face, we get an arrest. But to find his name, and to do it in secret, is a job of pure detective work.
Minister:
Commissioner, who is the best detective on the force?
Berthier:
The best detective is my own deputy commissioner, Claude Lebel.
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