The Day of the Jackal

A new version of The Day of the Jackal, a 1971 thriller by Frederick Forsyth, was released recently. (A movie by the same name was made many years back in 1973.) I've been making my way through the new version of the story, having read the book a while back.
The story's central character is The Jackal, a mysterious hired assassin who kills whoever he is paid to kill, provided the payday is high enough. As the series begins, he infiltrates an office building in Munich and shoots several people, most fatally, when a security guard detects him. One of the people he has wounded is the son of a prominent and controversial politician and is rushed to hospital. When the father goes to visit him in hospital, the Jackal shoots him dead with a single shot from an extremely long distance of 3 miles.
The German police contact their peers in their allied countries, including the Brits, and one of their analysts, a gun expert, becomes instrumental in connecting The Jackal to Britain because she knows that the only guy on earth who could make a sniper rifle of the kind he used was a fellow Brit. She activates a source who knows how to find the gun-maker and starts to track him down.
Meanwhile, The Jackal, played by Eddie Redmayne, turns out to have a home life. He lives in Spain and has a wife and 2 year old son. The wife has only a vague and inaccurate idea of what her husband does for a living and her family, with whom she is close, are equally in the dark. However, his frequent and sudden disappearances for "work" have her mother convinced he is having an affair behind her daughter's back. This soon leads the wife and her kin to begin trying to uncover who her husband really is.
I think that's enough to give you a sense of the story without spoiling too much. There are 10 episodes in this series. I've just finished the 4th episode. According to Wikipedia, it has already been renewed for a second season, which is a surprise to me: until a moment ago, I assumed it was intended to be a "limited series".
By the way, if you've read the book, don't expect this series to be very similar, even though the original author is credited as a consulting producer. It is set in the present day, not in the 1960s, and the people being killed as well as the people hiring The Jackal are different. I don't remember The Jackal having a family life at all in the book.
IMDB rates this first season at 8.1. I'm enjoying it.
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Rhino