The mad and the bad
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by James Sallis
Contributors: Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781590177204
Subjects: Murder for hire; Fiction
Work titles: O dingos, ô châteaux
Description: "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 them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson, gut groaning, pursues. Hunter and hunted make their way across France to the remote mountain estate to which Michel has retreated. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction"--
Notes: Translation from the French of: O dingos, o chateaux.