Jean-Patrick Manchette,Donald Nicholson-Smith,James Sallis: The Mad and the Bad
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Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette,Donald Nicholson-Smith,James Sallis
Number of Pages: 163 pages
Published Date: 15 Jul 2014
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781590177204
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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 grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette s celebrated "Fatale," "The Mad and the Bad" is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction."