Jean-Patrick Manchette, trans. from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York Review Books, $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-68137-210-5 First published in France in 1996, this unfinished ...

Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies ...

Backed by a tremendous European reputation, one of the stars of Gallimard's Série Noire comes to America with a lean thriller, in a brilliant new translation. Manchette (1942–1995) did translations ...

The potential franchise is based on a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel about an international operative betrayed by the organization he works for. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Based on a Jean-Patrick ...

“Let the Corpses Tan” — or, to use its even better French title, “Laissez Bronzer Les Cadavres” — is a feverish, obsessive act of cinematic rehabilitation, a shoot-’em-up conceived in tribute to a ...

An ordinary businessman witnesses a murder and is drawn into a web of violent intrigue; a hit man who wants out of the game finds that retiring isn’t quite as easy as saying “I quit.” These are ...

Pierre Morel, who turned Liam Neeson into an action star, is in negotiations to direct a project that is serving as Penn's entre into the action field. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Based on a ...

In Katie Lattari’s unnerving suspense novel, “Dark Things I Adore,” a scheming thesis adviser proves no match for his young protégé. By Sarah Weinman The publication of another novel by Jean-Patrick ...