The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette

The N'Gustro Affair

Jean-Patrick Manchette with Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator), Gary Indiana

200 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction crime mystery informative inspiring tense medium-paced

Description

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, 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 k...

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Moods

dark 100%
tense 100%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

Plot- or character-driven?

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Loveable characters?

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Yes: 100%

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