Fatale

France's king of noir fiction…he writes with a bleak, tragic beauty

France's king of noir fiction…he writes with a bleak, tragic beauty

Shocking, funny, sad, smart and cool… A macabre delight from start to finish

A fist between the eyes, leaving the reader reeling… So devastating it takes your breath away

Manchette's books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud

I’d rather read Manchette than many contemporary noir writers.

This pair of explosive, absurd French crime thrillers – with plenty of oh là là and even more zut alors – will cheer you up and help you forget the desperate weather… these [are] funny, nasty, perpetually surprising books

Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel and went on to establish a new genre of French novel, the neo-polar. Vintage Classics publishes his Fatale , Nada , No Room at the Morgue and Skeletons in the Closet .