- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: The Harvill Press; New edition edition (4 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1860467261
- ISBN-13: 978-1860467264
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 316,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Benjamin Malaussene is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, the redoubtable doyenne of publishing, he has finally had enough. After one row too many with her, he resigns, only to have Zabo offer him a starring role. All he has to do is impersonate the world's best-loved but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B.
But things are never simple for Malaussene and his extended family of misfits and chancers. Soon he is in deep, faced with the theft of a manuscript, a frenzied readership, his private life in disarray, and a spate of connected murders that threaten to destroy Vendetta Press.
Write to Kill is the third of four crime novels set in the Belleville quarter of Paris. The Fairy Gunmother and The Scapegoat are also available from Harvill.
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That's it. No more fending off death threats from rejected authors. No more being the fall guy. Benjamin Malaussène has had it as an editor at the Vendetta Press. Queen Zabo, the Boss, has other ideas. Sales of the best-selling but anonymous author J.L.B. are dropping off. What better way to revive them than by revealing his identity? And who better to impersonate him than Malaussène? But with his baby sister about to marry the 58-year-old head screw of a prison, the manuscript missing, bullets flying and a homicidal maniac on the loose, brilliantly comic mayhem is the order of the day.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you're looking for a witty, breathtaking and original story, with deep things in it but which doesn't cry out loud "hey look I'm deep", with that little surreal touch that breaks into the reality, go for the Malaussène stories. This is the 3rd one. Start with the first "the scapegoat".(I read those in french, hope the translation is good).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
As good as the two first Malaussène stories
26 Feb 1999
Format:Hardcover
If you're looking for a witty, breathtaking and original story, with deep things in it but which doesn't cry out loud "hey look I'm deep", with that little surreal touch that breaks into the reality, go for the Malaussène stories. This is the 3rd one. Start with the first "the scapegoat".(I read those in french, hope the translation is good).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Does not quite "kill"
16 Mar 2001
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This should have been an illustrated novel (bande desinee). (Pennac is an illustrator of Tardi BDs.) Vivid, memorable characterization, but marred by a kludgy, repetitive translation; misses wry and hits cute too often. The plot thrums along though suffers at the end from the same thing that marred "Smilla's Sense of Snow", a desperate sprint for the finish line. Writer blinded by science and hoping you'll believe the implausible ending. Still, fresh, barbed and imaginative.
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