The N'Gustro Affair - Jean-Patrick Manchette Eca de Queiras the most productive period of

the most productive period of her foreshortened literary career

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Basso’s most recent previous collection of poems

The N'Gustro Affair - Jean-Patrick Manchette Eca de Queiras the most productive period ofThe N'Gustro Affair by Jean Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson Smith ISBN 9781681375120 180 page paperback published by NYRB Classics *** The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, 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