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The n'Gustro Affair

The n'Gustro Affair

Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Nicholson-Smith, Donald

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1681375125
ISBN13: 9781681375120
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 21 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.

Mean, arrogant, naïve, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him. A death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role--and Butron's--in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of a postcolonial civil war.

The N'Gustro Affair is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco. But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette's first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even a full-bore fascist.

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