The N'Gustro Affair

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Synopsis
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 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.
Copyright:
1971

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
200 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781681375137
Related ISBNs:
9781681375120
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Éditions Gallimard, Paris
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Donald Nicholson-Smith

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