Fatale

Fatale
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781590175729
ISBN-13 : 1590175727
Rating : 4/5 (727 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fatale by : Jean-Patrick Manchette

Download or read book Fatale written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, 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. Aimée 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.


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