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Three to Kill

byJean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)

Georges Gerfaut lives a steady life: a wife, two daughters, a well-paid job, and a perfectly respectable passion for jazz. But a moment of uncharacteristic kindness sets in motion a murderous chain of events.

Hunted by hired killers and forced to abandon his family, Gerfaut goes unwillingly off-grid into the solitude of the mountains. Cut loose from the routines and responsibilities that once defined him, he discovers an unexpected exhilaration in becoming someone new: a man with a brutal capacity for revenge.

In his masterpiece, Three to Kill, Manchette turns the classic man-on-the-run thriller into a savage portrait of modern alienation. Cool, relentless, and darkly funny, it exposes the violence lurking beneath the comforts of modern life.

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

The Times

About Jean-Patrick Manchette

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.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781807847814
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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