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Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bleville: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corrup ...Show more
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: good
A New York Review Books OriginalWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there's no question that Aimee is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she's set her eyes on a backwater burg--where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to ...Show more
Nada by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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 Nada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette's dark thrillers, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the u ...Show more
Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-patrick Manchette; Alyson Waters (Translator)
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Eugéne 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. Sex, drugs, and . . . murder. Private eye Eugène Tarpon (previously seen in Jean-Patrick Manchette's No Room at ...Show more
The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
$33.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, na ve, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him. A death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up ...Show more
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A deadly professional assassin prized for his aim and reflexes, Martin Terrier returns to Paris after his latest job determined to get out of the game. Ten years ago he made a promise to return to his childhood sweetheart in the south of France, and he wants to get married and settle down. But his emplo ...Show more
Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder--and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself.... Manchette--masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic ...Show more
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