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    <![CDATA[The Prone Gunman (City Lights Noir)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. That's why he took up this profession! Martin returns to his hometown to claim her, but the Organization won't let him go. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone shooting position. In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Manchette subjects Martin and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1985</published>
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  <id type="integer">363655</id>
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    <![CDATA[Three To Kill]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>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-limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neo-conservative world.</p><p><strong>Jean-Patrick Manchette</strong> (1942-1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals-restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Today, Manchette is a totem to the generation of French mystery writers who came in his wake. Jazz saxophonist, political activist, and screen writer, Manchette was influenced as much by Guy Debord as by Gustave Flaubert.</p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1976</published>
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    <![CDATA[West Coast Blues]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>A savage noir thriller reuniting a master crime novelist and a superlative French cartoonist—the beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europe’s most beloved cartoonists to American audiences.</strong>  George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined with a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts... with brutal, bloody interest. <br/>  <br/>  Released in 2005, <em>West Coast Blues</em> (<em>Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest</em>) is Tardi’s adaptation of a popular 1976 novel by the French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette. (The novel had been previously adapted to film under the more literal title <em>Trois hommes à abattre</em>, and was released in English by the San Francisco-based publisher City Lights under the English version of the same title, <em>3 to Kill</em>.) <br/>  <br/>  Tardi’s late-period, looser style infuses Manchette’s dark story with a seething, malevolent energy; he doesn’t shy away from the frequently grisly goings-on, while maintaining (particularly in the old-married-couple-style bickering of the two killers who are tracking Gerfaut) the mordant wit that characterizes his best work. This is the kind of graphic novel that Quentin Tarantino would love, and a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction. 80 b&amp;w illustrations.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Jacques Tardi]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
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    <![CDATA[Nada]]>
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    <![CDATA[Alors qu'il se rendait dans une maison de passe parisienne huppée, l'ambassadeur américain est kidnappé par le groupe gauchiste Nada. Mais l'enlèvement a été filmé et le commissaire Goémond se lance avec de sérieux indices sur la piste des ravisseurs : cinq hommes aux âges et parcours différents. <p>Écrit en 1971, ce roman, où prédomine l'action, retrace bien l'ambiance de l'époque. En France, plusieurs factions gauchistes s'interrogeaient sur la nécessité de mener des actions terroristes à l'image de celles qui se déroulaient dans d'autres pays d'Europe. À cette question, Manchette, qui signe ici son polar le plus engagé, fournit, par l'intermédiaire d'un de ses personnages, une réponse sans ambiguïté : &quot;Le terrorisme gauchiste et le terrorisme étatique, quoique leurs mobiles soient incomparables, sont les deux mâchoires du même piège à cons.&quot; Devenu emblématique, cet ouvrage au style épuré, adapté au cinéma par Claude Chabrol en 1973, reste d'une saisissante modernité. <em>--Christophe Dupuis</em> </p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1973</published>
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    <![CDATA[Griffu]]>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
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    <id>214879</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jacques Tardi]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[La Princesse de sang]]>
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    <![CDATA[Berlin, 1945. L'officier anglais Farakhan se lie avec une orpheline surnommée Ivy et la prend sous sa protection. À Cuba, deux hommes échappent à une tuerie. L'un d'eux, Maurer, fuit avec Negra, une enfant. <p>Normandie 1956. Farakhan espionne pour les Français. Ivy, devenue une célèbre photographe de guerre, épuisée par trop de dangers, souhaite se retirer du monde une année. Farakhan lui suggère la Sierra Maestra, région très isolée de Cuba. Maurer s'y terre toujours avec Negra devenue adolescente. Elle est la nièce d'Aaron Black, un trafiquant d'armes recherché par les services français. Inévitablement, Ivy, Maurer et Negra vont se rencontrer... Aussitôt, une course poursuite va s'engager dans la jungle cubaine : les trois protagonistes échapperont-ils aux hommes de Black ?  <p>Dans cet ultime roman que la mort l'empêcha d'achever, Manchette renouvelle son inspiration et son cadre d'action habituel. Ce thriller international, au style unique et épuré, ravira autant les amateurs de polar que les <em>aficionados</em> de récits d'espionnage. <em>--Nicolas Mesplède</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[L'affaire n'gustro]]>
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    <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>125</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>20</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1999</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>2070408310</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[Morgue pleine]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Süddeutsche Zeitung Kriminalbibliothek: Nada: Bd 23]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Der amerikanische Botschafter in Frankreich wird mit brutalsten Mitteln aus einem Pariser Edelbordell entführt. Verantwortlich zeichnet die Gruppe Nada, eine Hand voll nicht mehr ganz junger Anarchisten und Kommunisten. Auf der Gegenseite steht der skrupellose Kommissar Goémond, der vom Außenminister persönlich beauftragt wird, die Geiselnehmer ausfindig zu machen -- um jeden Preis. <em>Nada</em> ist erstmals 1972 innerhalb der hochkarätigen französischen Krimireihe <em>Série Noire</em> erschienen und gilt bis heute als unübertroffenes Meisterstück des harten, schwarzen Kriminalromans. Selbst seine eigenen morbid-sarkastischen Thriller <em>Volles Leichenhaus</em> und <em>Blutprinzessin</em> verblassen im Vergleich.<p>  Manchettes Erzählhaltung bleibt während des ganzen Romans rein deskrptiv, keiner seiner Protagonisten wird zur Identifikation angeboten. Trotzdem ist es fast unmöglich, sich nicht bereits während der Vobereitungen der Entführung auf die Seite der politischen Gewalttäter zu schlagen, handelt es sich bei ihnen doch ausnahmslos um gebrochene Menschen, die an den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen kaputt gegangen sind. Manchette bietet allerdings auch keine einfachen Lösungen an: Der verbissene Kommissar und der übellaunige Büroleiter des Außenministers, um nur zwei Figuren zu nennen, können sich ebenso wenig den Zwängen ihrer Vergangenheit entziehen wie die Geiselnehmer.<p>  Mit <em>Nada</em> hat der Distel Literaturverlag genau die Hälfte der zehn Krimis von Jean-Patrick Manchette auf deutsch vorgelegt. Wer schon immer einmal wissen wollte, weshalb dieser Mann von Kritikern und Lesern in so seltener Einmütigkeit gefeiert wird, sollte dieses Buch lesen: Die Leitfigur des französischen Kriminalromans in Höchstform! <em>--Hannes Riffel</em></p></p>]]>
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    <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>125</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>20</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2006</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Les yeux de la momie]]>
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    <id>85191</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Doug Headline]]></name>
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    <id>144382</id>
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