The N'Gustro Affair - Jean-Patrick Manchette Eca de Queiras edited by Kurt Almqvist and

edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum / 182-page hardback

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while running an errand for her mother-in-law

Basso’s most recent previous collection of poems

the most productive period of her foreshortened literary career

The N'Gustro Affair - Jean-Patrick Manchette Eca de Queiras edited by Kurt Almqvist andThe 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