{"product_id":"three-to-kill","title":"Three to Kill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHis books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud.--\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBusinessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder--and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette--masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic--limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neoconservative world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManchette has appropriated and subverted the classic thriller  with] descriptions of undiluted action, violence and suspense  and] a perspective on evil, a disenchanted world of manipulation and fury. . . .--\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe petty exigencies of the classic thriller find themselves summarily reduced to cremains by the fiery blue jets of Jean-Patrick Manchette's concision, intelligence, tension, and style.--Jim Nisbet, author of \u003cem\u003eLethal Injection\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePrelude to a Scream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManchette is a must for the reading lists of all noir fans. . . . Manchette deserves a higher profile among noir fans.--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManchette . . . performs miracles within this simple story. His style is very matter of fact, stark and almost cool like the jazz his hero or anti-hero Gerfaut devours at every opportunity. Yet in this short novel there is no lack of atmosphere, excitement, characters or descriptive writing, it is just the total lack of unnecessary material that makes the story seem so lean and mean.--Norman Price, \u003cem\u003eEuroCrime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA social satire cum suspense equally interested in dissecting everyday banalities and manufacturing thrills. Writing with economy, deadpan irony, and an eye for the devastating detail, Manchette spins pulp fiction into literature.--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile there isn't much that's obviously moral--in the good-versus-evil sense-- this novel] demonstrate s] why Manchette is hailed as the man who kicked the French crime novel or 'polar' out of the apolitical torpor into which it had fallen by the time he started publishing his 'neo-polars' in the 1970s. . . . Grim and cerebral as they feel, it's remarkable how comic--in an absurdist, laugh-or-you'll-cry way--these books are, as if Manchette had decided that poking fun at the products of the capitalist system were the fittest way to attack the system itself.--Jennifer Howard, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pace is fast, the action sequences are \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326118051940,"sku":"9780872863958","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/three-to-kill","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}