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Nouvelle venue à Bléville, Aimée, jeune et belle veuve, intègre vite la bonne société. Spectatrice des compromissions et histoires de chacun, elle attend son heure pour entrer en scène.

Le roman raconte l'histoire du groupe Nada, un groupe anarchiste qui exécute l'enlèvement de l'ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en France. Repérés par la police, ils tuent leur otage avant d'être abattus à leur tour par les forces de l'ordre.

Manchette wrote two novels using the character of private eye Eugene Tarpon, Morgue pleine (Crowded day at the Morgue) and Que d'os! (Skeletons in the Closet!). Tarpon is a French private detective, a former cop responsible for the death of a protester, eaten up by grief, with a wry and weary outlook on the world, who gets mixed up in very tangled cases áa la Raymond Chandler, another of Manchette's favorite writers"--

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.Mean, arrogant, naive, 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 prominent opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of ...

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»Nada«, »Nichts«. Eine sechsköpfige, linksextreme Terrorgruppe, die Ender der 70er in Paris einen wagemutigen Plan fasst: Sie werden den amerikanischen Botschafter kidnappen. Während er ein einschlägiges Rotlicht-Etablissement besucht, schlagen sie zu. Und es läuft wie am Schnürchen. Doch die Probleme fangen damit erst an, denn sofort beginnt eine gnadenlose Jagd auf die »Anarchisten«. Und das bestenfalls brüchige Bündnis der sechs Aktivisten ...

This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment. The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang-or groupuscule-still retains a militant attachment to its revolutionary dreams. Bringing together an anarchist orphaned by the Spanish Civil War, a Communist veteran of t...

Due spaccati di una realtà cupa e violenta in cui si muovono altrettanti protagonisti dal cuore nero. I personaggi di "Posizione di tiro" e "Pazza da uccidere" dovranno scendere in un inferno di sangue e proiettili come nella migliore tradizione hard-boiled: un inferno di cui loro stessi sono parte, perché, quando ci si nutre di tenebre, non ci può essere alcuna redenzione!

Una babysitter dalla mente fragile. Un bambino viziato erede di un'immensa fortuna. Un killer con l'ulcera. Dopo "Posizione di tiro" Tardi disegna un altro ironico, anarchico capolavoro noir di Manchette: una storia criminale che corre a rotta di collo, con il ritmo di un road movie, verso un finale in bianco, nero e sangue.

Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist.Out of the wreckage of World War II swaggers Ivory Pearl, so named (rhymes with girl) by some British soldiers who made her their mascot, a mere kid, orphaned, survivor of God knows what, but fluent in French, English, smoking, and drinking. In Berlin, Ivy meets Samuel Farakhan, a rich close...

The Tardi/Manchette team of West Coast Bluesreunites for another brutal neo-noir classic.

Martin ha alle spalle tanti conti aperti e troppi morti. Quanto vale l'amore di un killer? Un noir gelido e violento, sovversivo e inquietante. La penna tagliente di Manchette arricchita dalle atmosfere amare di Tardi.

Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: Serie NegraGeorges Gerfaut posee una vida inmejorable. Tiene un buen trabajo, una familia encantadora y un precioso apartamento en París. Todo ello, sin embargo, lo sume en una apatía de la que nada parece poder arrancarlo. Hasta que, en el momento menos esperado, el destino pondrá a prueba su agónica desidia. Tras socorrer a la víctima de un accidente, descubre que, en realidad, se trataba de un montaje para...

Aim¿Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bl¿lle: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corruption, dormant grudges, scandals just waiting to be uncovered - yes, there's a killing to be made here. So Aim¿starts to wreak her stylish mayhem on...

Deadly professional assassin Martin Terrier's plans to retire and return to his childhood sweetheart in the south of France are put on hold when a key target flies into Paris, and there's only one man fit for the task of eliminating him. Film tie-in cover, a major motion-picture starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance is due for release in February 2015.

Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with an ulcerated gut. Michel, known for his kindly interest in the disadvantaged, hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill the...

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 tu...

Georges Gerfaut ist leitender Angestellter eines Konzerns in Paris. Dynamisch, erfolgreich, glücklich verheiratet, zwei kleine Töchter. Er macht mit seiner Familie Urlaub im Südwesten Frankreichs. Beim Baden im Meer versuchen plötzlich zwei unbekannte Männer, ihn umzubringen. Er weiß nicht warum. Als er am nächsten Tag von den gleichen Killern wieder angegriffen wird, flieht er, statt zur Polizei zu gehen, ins Zentralmassiv. Aber auch dort ist...

Der Auftrag für Thompson scheint einfach: Der kleine Neffe eines millionenschweren Architekten soll aus dem Weg geräumt und der Mord dem Kindermädchen, der jungen, angeblich nicht zurechnungsfähigen Julie, angehängt werden. Doch alles läuft schief. Der Junge und Julie können dem Killer entkommen. Nun wird der Job für Thompson zur Obsession: Eine erbarmungslose Hetzjagd quer durch Frankreich, ein wahnwitziges Duell zwischen Julie und Thompson b...

In the latest Machette-Tardi neo-noir graphic novel, an industrialist hires a nanny out of an asylum, planning to use her as a scapegoat, then things go horribly wrong.