Jean-Patrick Manchette

1942–1995

1 standalone book

Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of the 1970s–1980s. His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society.

Born
1942

Books by Jean-Patrick Manchette

  1. Cover of La position du tireur couché

    La position du tireur couché

    1981

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