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The prone gunman / Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by James Brook.
Van Pelt Library PQ2673.A452 P6713 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995.
- Standardized Title:
- Position du tireur couché. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights, [2002]
- Summary:
- Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone shooting position. A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as bodies.
- Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942b?"1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals, restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Manchette is a totem to a generation of French mystery writers, and his stories have inspired several films, including Claude Chabrol's "Nada."
- Also Available by Jean-Patrick Manchette "Three to Kill" TP $11.95, 0-87286-395-6 b?" CUSA
- ISBN:
- 0872864022
- OCLC:
- 49519219
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