{"product_id":"9781681375120","title":"The N'Gustro Affair","description":"By: Jean-Patrick Manchette     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMean, 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 their role—and Butron’s—in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a prominent opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of a postcolonial civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe N’Gustro Affair\u003c\/i\u003e is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco. But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette’s first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Killer Inside Me\u003c\/i\u003e) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even a full-bore fascist.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46774979330275,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781681375120","price":102.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781681375120.jpg?v=1751663425","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781681375120","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}