Re: RARA-AVIS: Jean-Patrick Manchette

From: JT Lindroos ( juha@oivas.com)
Date: 09 Aug 2003


>>He's not only cool, he's one of the best of the French HB/Noir. A major
influence on a lot of contemporary French writers. ... All this being said, read Manchette's novels.<<

Having read the first two translations, it's difficult to read anything else. They are *so* good I just keep wishing I had more of his work to read instead of what I happen to be flipping through. Right now I'm reading Helen Nielsen's KILLER IN THE STREETS which Ed Gorman recommends, and it's fine solid medium-boiled novel, but it shrivels in comparison with Manchette. He is, in my book, and on the basis of 3 TO KILL and PRONE GUNMAN, equal to the best of Willeford, Thompson, Leonard, Himes and Crumley. Brilliant stuff.

--Juha.

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