Der Todestrieb: Lebensbericht eines Staatsfeindes

by Jacques Mesrine

Pocket Book

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Jacques Mesrine (28 December 1936–2 November 1979) was a French criminal who was also briefly active in the United States and Canada. He was responsible for numerous bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings, and claimed in an autobiography he wrote from prison to have committed upwards of forty murders. He was adept at disguising himself (earning himself the moniker "The Man of a Hundred Faces") and making successful escape attempts from prison.

Mesrine's life was the subject of an acclaimed pair of films which came out in 2008.