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Pazza Da Uccidere (1972)

by Jean-Patrick Manchette(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8806156969 (ISBN13: 9788806156961)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: A NYRB reprint of a French novelist book from the 1970s, this is an unusual thriller. There is a great plot, and good characters and hard-boiled dialogue to meet your noir fix. A woman who had been institutionalized is released and hired by a mysterious architect and businessman, to mind his nephew. A professional killer is on their trail. Half-joking, when I say that almost every character in this book wants someone else dead. Manchette, a former journalist, moves the story forward at a brisk place. There are some ironic asides about French politics, class society. Fair warning to current readers, some of the attitudes have a dated, sexist vibe to them; it's as if Ian Fleming suddenly became French. (Another Manchette novel will be made into a movie, with Sean Penn, in ... more2015).
review 2: Now this is crime writing that I love. So so fresh compared to the overly formulaic writing style that we generally put up with when needing a dose of fast paced action, clever characters and a good chunk of gore. One of Frances favorite crime writers, this man lived a large life as a raconteur, bon- vivant, leftist militant and crime kingin. And this is how he writes, a punchy little book with a lot to say. less

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