- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (2 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852424753
- ISBN-13: 978-1852424756
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 433,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In just 130 pages Manchette presents a quartet of convincing characters - target, hitmen and their employer - and a simple and unpredictable plot which grips throughout --Sunday Telegraph
The pace is fast, the action sequences are superb, and the effect is just as striking as it must have been when the book was first published in 1976 --Guardian
A literate, bleak book about the fragility of bourgeois lives and the potential of random brutality to destroy them --The Times
The pace is fast, the action sequences are superb, and the effect is just as striking as it must have been when the book was first published in 1976 --Guardian
A literate, bleak book about the fragility of bourgeois lives and the potential of random brutality to destroy them --The Times
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Late one night in Paris, travelling salesman Georges Gerfaut stops to help an injured motorist to hospital. Three days later, while Gerfaut is on holiday with his wife and daughters, he is attacked by two men. Quickly realising the duo?s murderous intent, but perplexed as to their motives, Gerfaut goes on the run, communicating with his family by telegram. Terrified, yet exhilarated by this release from his humdrum life, Gerfaut resolves to turn the tables and track down his pursuers. Jean-Patrick Manchette presents a clash between two opposing worlds: a conventional, middle-class existence cluttered by possessions and responsibilities, and a violent criminal underworld. In Georges Gerfaut we find an unlikely hero, an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances and forced to fight for his life. Three to Kill is another riveting slice of ?70s noir by a masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic.
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And sometimes what used to happen was what is happening now: Georges Gerfaut is driving on Paris's outer ring road. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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And sometimes what used to happen was what is happening now: Georges Gerfaut is driving on Paris's outer ring road. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This dark French crime novel has a wonderfully random plot, and for that reason it seems to reek of the kind of French crime movies that got made in the 1960s. I loved it - beautifully spare writing, with capriciously bizarre events, which never let you relax into your reading. Anyone desperate to read something intelligent and very very French will enjoy this, I'd hope.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a superb piece of writing that grips from the first paragraph and holds its grip until the last. it's not quite true to say that there is not a superfluous word -- there are several, mostly brand names. But it is truly a pared-down plot that races along without ever being too far-fetched. There are holes, admittedly, but the sort you can fill in with your own imagination rather than the sort that leave you bewildered. You never really know why the events happen as they do -- and it doesn't really matter since the basic premise is so good that you get caught up completely in the 'what next' rather than the 'why'. And the ending is just ... well, read it yourself and find out and let's hope that Manchette influences a whole new generation of crime writers.
Format:Paperback
I had been hoarding an old review clipping of 'The Prone Gunman' for what must have been years, before finally reaching out to Amazon for that title, along with 'Three to Kill'.
The reviews do not do Manchette justice in my view; he has a style of writing that is both sparse and atmospheric, introducing themes and ideas in a few well-selected words or phrases, that others might take several pages. Absolutely superb in all respects.
The reviews do not do Manchette justice in my view; he has a style of writing that is both sparse and atmospheric, introducing themes and ideas in a few well-selected words or phrases, that others might take several pages. Absolutely superb in all respects.
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