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Informationen zum Autor The Marseilles-born Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) authored ten short, tough-minded, highly acclaimed crime novels, as well as a multitude of other books, screen- and teleplays, magazine columns, and translations of American crime and science fiction novels. A lifelong comics fan, he also wrote the hardboiled graphic novel Griffu for Jacques Tardi in 1978, and in the late 1980s, was selected to translate the French edition of Watchmen. Klappentext The Tardi/Manchette team of West Coast Bluesreunites for another brutal neo-noir classic. Zusammenfassung Like many of the greatest noir thrillers! Jacques Tardi and Jean-PatrickManchette’s graphic novel Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot beginswith a classic! even clichéd set-up: Martin Terrier! the hired killer!needs just one more big job so that he can turn in his guns! return to hisnative village to find and marry his childhood sweetheart! and retire. Butnothing goes as expected — his “last job” turns out to be aset-up that results in a bloody shoot-out from which Terrier barely escapes withhis life! and soon he’s on the run from not only the authorities and histreacherous ex-bosses! but also the members of a crime syndicate still seekingrevenge for an earlier hit on one of theirs.
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The Marseilles-born
Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) authored ten short, tough-minded, highly acclaimed crime novels, as well as a multitude of other books, screen- and teleplays, magazine columns, and translations of American crime and science fiction novels. A lifelong comics fan, he also wrote the hardboiled graphic novel
Griffu for Jacques Tardi in 1978, and in the late 1980s, was selected to translate the French edition of
Watchmen.
