Jean-Patrick Manchette

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Born:
Dec. 19, 1942
Died:
June 3, 1995

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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.

Books by Jean-Patrick Manchette