Jean-Patrick Manchette

• Jan-2002
• / Mystery
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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. ...

• Jun-2002
• / Mystery
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Also available in a new, movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87286-664-5. Ebook ISBN: 9780872866652). Film opened March 20, 2015 starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, directed by Pierre Morel (T...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run wi...

• May-2011
• / Suspense
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A New York Review Books OriginalWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg -- where, while ...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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The Tardi/Manchette team of West Coast Blues reunites for another brutal neo-noir classic.

• Jul-2014
• / Suspense
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An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for FictionMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense  fortune has just grown that much greater fol...

• Mar-2015
• / Mystery
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"The film also stars Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, and is directed by Pierre Morel ( Taken ).About The Gunman : Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. But the Organ...

• Feb-2016
• / General Fiction
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 Aimée 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 rural town of Bleville, before ruthlessly murdering them. Faced with corrupt...

• May-2018
• / Political Thriller
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Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist.Out of the wreckage of World War II swaggers Ivory Pearl, so named (rhymes with girl) by s...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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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 long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Pari...

• Aug-2020
• / Mystery
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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 the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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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 catches up with him: a death passed off as a suicide by his killers,...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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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. Private eye Eugéne Tarpon is back to sleeping in his ...