The N'Gustro affair / Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Gary Indiana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995, author.

Contributor:

Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.

Indiana, Gary, writer of introduction.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Affaire N'Gustro. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 180 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Mean, arrogant, naïve, 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 their role-and Butron's-in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of postcolonial civil war. The N'Gustro Affair is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco. But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette's first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson's The Killer inside Me) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even a full-bore fascist"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995. N'Gustro affair

ISBN:

9781681375120

1681375125

OCLC:

1224583296