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Outliers is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the “10,000-Hour Rule”, claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practising a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.

The publication debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Globe and Mail on November 28, 2008, holding the position on both lists for eight weeks straight as of January 16, 2009. Generally well received by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell’s other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting. The writing style, deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex sociological phenomena.

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The book’s story will take place in Washington, D.C. and focus on Freemasonry and The Lost Symbol, a reference to a ciphered pictogram in an important talisman, the Hebrew Key of Solomon. The book has been in development for several years; originally expected in 2006, the projected publication date has been pushed back multiple times. The book will be published on September 15, 2009 with an initial print run between 5 to 6.5 million copies, which will be the largest first printing in publisher Random House’s history, and there was no date scheduled for the release of the electronic version for the first time. The eBook version is available for preorder. The book has been on pre-order lists for a few months and is being heavily ordered both in the U.S. and Canada. Brown’s US publisher Sonny Mehta described it as “a brilliant and compelling thriller” which is “well worth the wait”

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• Trial and Error
• Cheap at Half The Price
• Dougie Mortimer’s Right Arm
• Do Not Pass Go
• Chunnel Vision
• Shoeshine Boy
• You’ll Never Live to Regret It
• Never Stop on the Motorway
• Not for Sale
• Timeo Danaos
• An Eye for an Eye
• One Man’s Meat

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Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books. It revolves around the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to uncover the mysteries of a secret society called the Illuminati and to unravel a plot to annihilate Vatican City using destructive antimatter. The book uses the idea of a historical conflict between science and religion, particularly that between the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. It has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since first publication, which was marked by the release of a 15th anniversary edition in 2004. The book lists seven principles that, if established as habits, are supposed to help a person achieve true interdependent effectiveness. Covey argues this is achieved by aligning oneself to what he calls “true north” principles of a character ethic that he believes to be universal and timeless.

Dependence to Independence

• Habit 1: Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Choice —-
• Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Vision
• Habit 3: Put First Things First: Principles of Integrity & Execution

Independence to Interdependence

• Habit 4: Think Win/Win: Principles of Mutual Benefit
• Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood: Principles of Mutual Understanding
• Habit 6: Synergize: Principles of Creative Cooperation

Continual Improvement

• Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

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The first part, “Anatomy of a Plot”, describes the motives for the assassination. The Jackal has his first and only meeting in Vienna with three OAS leaders and discusses the price of the killing. The rest of the first part describes the Jackal’s researches on Charles de Gaulle while in England, the layout of Paris in a reconnaissance trip there, and describes the weapon he plans to use. Little information is given about the nature of his plan. The Jackal sets up multiple false identities and disguises, by forging and stealing passports, driving licences, and identity cards.

The second part, “Anatomy of a Manhunt”, shows how French Intelligence finds out about the OAS plan and how Inspector Claude Lebel, a French detective hand-picked to find the Jackal, prevents the assassination. In the meantime, the French ministers debate whether or not to inform President De Gaulle (who was notoriously careless of his personal safety) about the plan.

Pressured by his superiors, Lebel does everything he can to discover the Jackal’s identity. He calls upon his “old boy network” of foreign intelligence and police contacts to inquire if they have any records on such a man. Finally, the Special Branch (of Scotland Yard) give Lebel the name of Charles Harold Calthrop (his name can be used to spell Jackal in French – Cha[rles] Cal[throp]), whom the SIS have in their list of suspected assassins-for-hire, and find a match name of a man living in London. Special Branch raid Calthrop’s flat, finding him gone, but deduce he must be traveling on a false passport, because they find his in their search of the flat.

The French police get close to the Jackal a few times, as the British work out both names of false passports, but he evades capture. The Jackal’s OAS informant leaks French government information to the Jackal, allowing him to remain ahead of the police, sometimes by just minutes.

In the third part, “Anatomy of a Kill”, Inspector Lebel understands that there is one day drawing near on which President De Gaulle will insist upon a scheduled public appearance: Liberation Day, on the 25th of August, commemorating the liberation of Paris in World War II. Despite police safeguards, the Jackal reaches Paris; en route killing a woman whom he seduces to gain shelter, then later a man.

As the Liberation Day celebrations begin, the French police are alert. The Jackal, disguised as a one-legged war veteran, carrying a custom precision rifle concealed in a crutch, passes through the police checkpoints and makes his way to a building facing the Place du 18 Juin 1940 where De Gaulle will present medals to war veterans. He positions himself, readies his rifle, and places French President Charles de Gaulle in the cross-hairs.

Yet, the Jackal fails to take into account the Gallic custom of kissing on both cheeks, instead expecting that de Gaulle will shake hands with the medal recipient. The Jackal fires—de Gaulle simultaneously steps forward, bends to kiss the much shorter (de Gaulle was noted for his towering stature) recipient on the cheeks — and the bullet misses.

Lebel, meanwhile, inquiring at the checkpoints, surmises that the war veteran with the aluminium crutch is actually the Jackal. He and a CRS officer Pierre Valremy rush up to the apartment. When they burst in, the Jackal turns, shoots and kills the young policeman with his rifle.

At last, confronting each other, the assassin and the police detective—who had developed grudging, mutual respect for one another in the long chase—briefly look into each other’s eyes, the one saying “Chacal” and the other responding “Lebel”, before scrambling to kill each other. The Jackal must insert a new bullet into his bolt action sniper rifle; Lebel, not carrying a weapon himself, must reach for and pick up from the floor the dead policeman’s MAT-49 submachine-gun. Lebel is faster, and shoots the Jackal with half a magazine-load of bullets, instantly killing him.

When the true Charles Calthrop is located, it becomes apparent to the authorities that no one knows who the Jackal was. Thomas asks, “If the Jackal wasn’t Calthrop, then who the hell was he?” The British authorities deny any possibility of the Jackal being a Briton, so the funeral is classified as “an unknown foreign tourist, killed in a car accident”, attended only by Police Inspector Claude Lebel. The story ends with the closing line.

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