"The book that kept me up way too late:Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette: vicious and hilarious, Manchette was a new discovery for me about three years ago."?Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake in Elle Magazine "His books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud."?The EconomistBusinessman 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?limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neoconservative world."Manchette has appropriated and subverted the classic thriller [with] descriptions of undiluted action, violence and suspense [and] a perspective on...
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