L' affaire N'Gustro

Pages: 200
Published: 1971
Language: English

A professional killer is hired for a political assassination, but the operation quickly spirals into chaos and double-crosses. As the body count rises, the line between hunter and hunted blurs, forcing the protagonist to navigate a treacherous world of espionage and betrayal.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Dark Tense Gritty

Anti-Hero

Crime Thriller Political Thriller

Authors

Donald Nicholson-Smith

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of the 1970s - 1980s . His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society. Source: Goodreads.com