Three to Kill
Jean-Patrick Manchette author Donald Nicholson-Smith translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:22nd Apr '27
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES SALLIS
Georges Gerfaut lives a steady life: a wife, two daughters, a well-paid job, and a perfectly respectable passion for jazz. But a moment of uncharacteristic kindness sets in motion a murderous chain of events.
Hunted by hired killers and forced to abandon his family, Gerfaut goes unwillingly off-grid into the solitude of the mountains. Cut loose from the routines and responsibilities that once defined him, he discovers an unexpected exhilaration in becoming someone new: a man with a brutal capacity for revenge.
In his masterpiece, Three to Kill, Manchette turns the classic man-on-the-run thriller into a savage portrait of modern alienation. Cool, relentless, and darkly funny, it exposes the violence lurking beneath the comforts of modern life.
'France's king of noir fiction...he writes with a bleak, tragic beauty' * The Times *
'Manchette's books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud' * The Economist *
'I'd rather read Manchette than many contemporary noir writers' * Sarah Weinman *
'Warn your children and the weak of heart. There is meat here. There is gristle. There is bone.' * James Sallis *
'The book that kept me up way too late...vicious and hilarious' * Rachel Kushner *
'Manchette has appropriated and subverted the classic thriller [with] undiluted action, violence and suspense' * Times Literary Supplement *
'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' -- Laura Wilson * The Guardian *
ISBN: 9781807847807
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 143g
192 pages