50 calibre sniper rifle like those used by the SAS and US Navy Seals. Mirroring Eddie Redmayne’s character in TV’s Day Of The Jackal, she is a crack shot in her army unit. The sniper ...

Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal opens with a bang. In the first episode (streaming now), the world’s greatest assassin (the titular Jackal, played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne) sets up an ...

The story behind the novel, which features a fictional plot based on real threats to the life of then-French President ...