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Jean-Patrick Manchette
Eugene Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette's No Room at the Morgue, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling.
Private eye…
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A hired killer refuses a mission in the Organization that he works for. He decides to retire and goes back to the town where he was born so he can…
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Aimee is a beautiful young widow - she’s also a killer. Driven by a deep-rooted desire for revenge, she sets about uncovering the secrets of the inhabitants of the sleepy…
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Also available in a movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman.
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The Gunman is now a major motion picture starring Sean Penn. This is the official movie tie-in edition.
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.
Mean, arrogant, naive, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death…
First in English for Manchette, renovator of French noir; trenchant social critique laced with black humor.
Jacques Tardi,Jean-Patrick Manchette
A brutal two-punch of savage noir thrillers, collected in English for the first time.
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Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette’s unparalleled take on the private eye novel - fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by…
A blackly funny noir thriller from Tardi and Manchette about a staged kidnapping going horribly wrong.
Small-town politics can be vicious.
This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette’s signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.
The thrill of 1968 is…
An NYRB Classics Original
Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction
Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just…
Originally published in 1996 in French as La princesse du sang by aEditions Payot & Rivages –Title page verso.
