by Jean-Patrick Manchette · RBA Libros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490064979
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«Balada de la costa Oeste» is the crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, published by RBA Libros in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
The bourgeois Georges Gerfaut leads a comfortable and uneventful existence in Paris. When he stops to help an injured man on the road, he discovers the accident was staged to cover up a murder; turned into an inconvenient witness, thugs try to silence him. Forced to flee, the protagonist abandons his routine and finds in the chase an excitement he may have longed for.
Novel translated from French by Ramon de España; original from 1976 titled «Le petit bleu de la côte ouest». It is the second instalment of the Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder series.
For fans of crime fiction and classic suspense, with a bourgeois protagonist who becomes a fugitive.
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 that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture.
