Where can i get a study guide/sparknotes kind of thing for Forsyth's Day of the Jackal?

Question

sparknotes, cliffnotes, pinkmonkey, and bookrags do not have it so i need help.

Answer 1

Those sites do only "mainstream, important" stuff, so you're not going to find anything about "airport novels" there.
The best you can do is reviews, such as the one below:

""A high-class British assassin is hired by a renegade French military group,the OAS, to assasinate the President of France, Gen. Charles deGaulle. The assassin, known only as The Jackal, plans meticulously for what he terms as his "Once in a lifetime" hit, which is going to make him richer by half a million dollars. However, the plot is uncovered by French authorities and they appoint Comm. Lebel, a high-results,low-profile cop to trace and stop the Jackal. "
Avinash, Resident Scholar

"French President Charles de Gaulle handed over Algeria to Algerian nationalists after years of the French fighting and losing their lives. Due to his disgraceful decision, a French terrorist group called the OAS formed to assassinate de Gaulle. After an attempt on his life where several members of the OAS hid along a street, shooting at the President's bullet-proof vehicle, failed, the three top men of the organization hired a professional assassin. Code-named the Jackal, or Chacal in French, the book describes his extensive planning on the attempted killing of de Gaulle. Between the time the Jackal starts his planning and up to the actual day of the planned assassination, a French investigator is hot on his tail. Every inch of turf that the Jackal covers, the investigator, Claude Lebel, goes over just moments behind. "


For more, see the second and third links

Answer 2

It's really quite an entertaining read. Damned shame you're clearly trying to avoid it.