Wild Goose, Brother Goose. The Day of the Jackal. A Day No Pigs Would Die

📒 Duke was a wild Canada gander who once lived at Little Lakes, the author's home in Wisconsin. He had come down with a flock that settled among the trout ponds. There he found a mate, but Duchess was pinioned and could not fly. On bright, clear days when the migrant flocks lifted, Duke longed to follow them down the sky. Many times he was tempted, and many times he left, but he always came back. For Canadas are monogamous. When a dog killed Duchess, the stricken Duke, with his goslings, was taken to a national wildlife refuge and turned loose among tens of thousands of his own kind. This much is true. How Duke led his young to Heron Marsh, how he faced man's guns and nature's predators and survived storms and the threat of starvation, is a thrilling story that will set you to thinking of the ways of men as well as geese. Mel Ellis, hunter turned conservationist, has much to say about both. Paris: August 25, 1963. As the day dawns, the best professional assassin in the world makes final preparations to kill Charles de Gaulle, President of France. The killer is charming, relentless. His code name: Jackal. His price: half a million dollars. The main obstacle in the Jackal's path is a small, diffident, and rumpled policeman, Commissaire Claude Lebel. Although Lebel's boss considers him the best detective in France, he himself cannot feel much confidence as he begins to track down a killer whose plans and identity are a blank. Deliberately, with round-the-clock assistance from poli...