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Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bleville: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corrup ...Show more
Ivory Pearl by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator); Gary Indiana (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Nada by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment Nada is the most overtly political of Jean-Patrick Manchette's dark thrillers, a critique of the terrorism that tempted a sliver of the u ...Show more
No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette
35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: near fine
Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel -- fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed. No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patri ...Show more
Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-patrick Manchette; Alyson Waters (Translator)
45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eugéne Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette's No Room at the Morgue, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling. Sex, drugs, and . . . murder. Private eye Eugène Tarpon (previously seen in Jean-Patrick Manchette's No Room at ...Show more
Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder - The Complete Graphic Noir of Manchette and Tardi by Jacques Tardi; Jean-patrick Manchette; Kim Thompson (Translator)
49.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\Complete Noir Stories of Manchette and Tardi Ser.
In the never-before-collected Griffu, the titular character is a legal advisor, not a private eye, but even he knows that when a sultry blonde appears in his office after hours, he shouldn't trust her -- and she doesn't disappoint. Griffu is soon ensnared in a deadly web of sexual betrayal, real estate ...Show more
Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder - The Complete Noir of Manchette and Tardi Vol. 2 by Tardi; Jean-patrick Manchette
49.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\Complete Noir Stories of Manchette and Tardi Ser.
The second of two volumes presenting all four hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi. Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot -- Martin Terrier, killer-for-hire, needs just one more big job so that he can turn in his guns for good and return home to marry his childhood sweetheart. ...Show more
The Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Deadly professional assassin Martin Terrier returns to Paris after his latest job determined to get out of the game. Ten years ago he made a promise to return to his childhood sweetheart in the south of France. But circumstances put Martin's attempted retirement on hold: a key target is flying in to Par ...Show more
The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette
35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
37.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
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 ...Show more
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette; James Brook (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: City Lights Noir Ser.
Also available in a new, movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87286-664-5. Ebook ISBN: 9780872866652). Film opened March 20, 2015 starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, directed by Pierre Morel (Taken). Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of ...Show more
Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Businessman 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 ...Show more
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