The n'Gustro Affair

by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Book Overview

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.

Mean, arrogant, na ve, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him. A death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role--and Butron's--in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681375125
• ISBN13: 9781681375120
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"