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Lucy Sante's excellent introduction this slim kidnapping caper (originally published in 1972) situates it as the first French crime novel written from a leftist perspective, pushing the genre out of its traditional alignment with law and order, conservative/right-wing views. In it, a kind of classic rag-tag assembly of a gang seeks to kidnap the American ambassador to France in order to force the publication of their muddled manifesto. While the gang is full of archetypes (a grizzled revolutiona
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