| Description |
xvii, 180 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Summary |
"Mean, arrogant, naïve, 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 killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role-and Butron's-in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of postcolonial civil war. The N'Gustro Affair is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco. But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette's first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson's The Killer inside Me) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even a full-bore fascist"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Political violence -- Africa -- Fiction.
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Abduction -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Bin Barakah, al-Mahdī, 1920-1965.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Author |
Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.
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Indiana, Gary, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Affaire N'Gustro. English
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| ISBN |
9781681375120 paperback |
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1681375125 paperback |
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