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The N'Gustro Affair
Jean-Patrick Manchette
The N'Gustro Affair
Jean-Patrick Manchette
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.
Mean, arrogant, naive, 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 prominent 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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 21, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781681375120 |
Publishers | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 126 × 202 × 14 mm · 226 g |
Language | English |
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