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100 1  Echenoz, Jean,|eauthor. 
240 10 Envoyée spéciale.|lEnglish 
245 10 Special envoy :|ba spy novel /|cJean Echenoz ; translated 
       from the French by Sam Taylor. 
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264  1 New York :|bThe New Press,|c2017. 
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380    Fiction 
520    Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary 
       Award "Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy 
       thriller." 'New York Times Book Review A dazzling 
       satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink 
       Panther and part Le CarrE'from one of the world's 
       preeminent authors Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels 
       have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he 
       has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States,
       where he has been profiled by the New Yorker and called 
       the"most distinctive voice of his generation" by the 
       Washington Post. With his wonderfully droll and intriguing
       new work, Special Envoy, Echenoz turns his hand to the 
       espionage novel. When published in France, it stormed the 
       bestseller lists. Special Envoy begins with an old general
       in France's intelligence agency asking his trusted 
       lieutenant Paul Objat for ideas about a person he wants 
       for a particular job: someone to aid the destabilization 
       of Kim Jong-un's regime in North Korea. Objat has someone 
       in mind: Constance, an attractive, restless, bored woman 
       in a failing marriage to a washed-up pop musician. Soon 
       after, she is abducted by Objat's cronies and spirited 
       away into the lower depths of France's intelligence 
       bureaucracy where she is trained for her mission. What 
       follows is a bizarre tale of kidnappings, murders and 
       mutilations, bad pop songs and great sex, populated by a 
       cast of oddballs and losers. Set in Paris, rural central 
       France, and Pyongyang, Special Envoy is joyously strange 
       and unpredictable, full of twists and ironic 
       digressions'and, in the words of L'Express, "a pure gem, a
       delight." 
588 0  Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; 
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650  0 Spy stories, French|vFiction. 
650  0 Spy stories. 
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700 1  Taylor, Sam,|d1970-|etranslator. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aEchenoz, Jean.|tSpecial envoy.|dNew York
       : The New Press, 2017|z9781620973127|w(DLC)  2017018186 
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