Name: The Prone Gunman - Jean-patrick Manchette
Brand: Jean Patrick Manchette
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nHis books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud.--The EconomistMartin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game--so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession But the company won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone firing position. A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as it does bodies. Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style.This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of the success story is widely considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York Times Notable Book. The Prone Gunman is a classic of modern noir.For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines.--Boston GlobeThere's not a superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction.--New York TimesFor the first time readers can experience in English translation the masterful thriller considered Manchette's finest, proof positive that the French knew what they were talking about when they labeled this sort o