The N'Gustro affair

The N'Gustro affair

Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Gary Indiana
Book - 2021

"Mean, arrogant, naïve, 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 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"--

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Nicholson-Smith, Donald (Traductor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
Colección:New York Review Books classics.
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