The Day of the Jackal vs The Eagle has Landed: Which Should You Read?

The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth · 1971 ★★★★☆ 4.3 377 pages · ≈ 6 h 59 m · Moderate

In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday TimesOne of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by…

The Eagle has Landed Henry Patterson · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.1 362 pages · ≈ 6 h 42 m · Moderate

“Someone was digging a grave in one corner of the cemetery as I went in through the lychgate.”

In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned…