The Mad and the Bad Manchette Jean-PatrickPaperback
The Mad and the Bad Manchette Jean-PatrickPaperback An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for FictionMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful…
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The Mad and the Bad Manchette Jean-PatrickPaperback
An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for FictionMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Julie is in an insane asylum. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat.
Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. And he hires Thompson to kill them.
Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly.
Bodies accumulate.The craziness is just getting started.Like Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative