num_pages: 98
description: An NYRB Classics OriginalWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism theres no question that Aime is a killer and a more than professional one. Now shes set her eyes on a backwater burgwhere while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better as always to make a killing. But then something snaps: the master manipulator falls prey to a pure and wayward passion.Aime has become the avenging angel of her own nihilism exacting the destruction of a whole society of destroyers. An unholy original Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun. In Fatale he mixes equal measures of farce mayhem and madness to prepare a rare literary cocktail that packs a devastating punch.
language: English
title: Fatale
publisher: NYRB Classics