Killing a Mouse on Sunday is a 1961 thriller novel by the British-Hungarian writer Emeric Pressburger, best known as a film producer. In Francoist Spain a Civil Guard officer attempts to lure a notorious exiled guerrilla fighter back across the border from France.
The anarchist Quico Sabaté's death inspired the book.
Adaptation In 1964 it was adapted into a Hollywood film Behold a Pale Horse directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif.Gable p.375
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.