The Gunman - jean-patrick manchette

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-95) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic and translator. Throughout the 1960s he supported himself by writing television scripts, young-adult books and film novelisations. In 1971 he published his first novel and embarked on his literary career in earnest, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and transforming the crime thriller into a lethal weapon of political satire. Serpent's Tail have also published Manchette's novels Fatale and Three to Kill; like The Gunman, they are ultra-stylish, pacy, action-packed thrillers with a deadly satirical edge.