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Overview
Overview
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, na ve, 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 a 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.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- ISBN: 9781681375120
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.70
- Number Of Pages: 200
- Publication Year: 2021
Language:
English