More from Manchette: Fatale + Like a Sniper...
Members of the Jean-Patrick Manchette Cult have plenty to get excited about this year. Fatale, the third of his novels to appear in English, has been released by New York Review Books, the translation undertaken by Donald Nicholson-Smith, the translator responsible for Three to Kill, published by City Lights Noir in 2002. I've been carrying my copy around (as pictured), stealing a few pages here and there. Fatale numbers fewer than a hundred pages, so I don't want to rush.
More anticipation: Jacques Tardi's graphic novel version of Manchette's The Prone Gunman, which has been given the slightly more poetic title Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, is due out this summer. Reading the earlier effort, an edition of Three to Kill (dubbed West Coast Blues), I was surprised how well the story was adapted to the medium. It's not for the faint of heart, however, and I imagine Like a Sniper will be no different.
