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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder (vol. 2)

The Complete Noir Stories of Manchette and Tardi
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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder (vol. 2) collects the remaining two gritty, hardboiled crime graphic novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi. In Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, hitman Martin Terrier faces a deadly one last job that turns into a desperate fight for survival against law enforcement and vengeful syndicates. Run Like Crazy, Run Like Hell follows Julie, a resilient woman framed in a sinister kidnapping plot, as she flees with a child while hunted by police and a relentless killer. The stories blend noir crime with tense psychological thrills across Parisian backdrops.
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Fans of noir graphic novels and gritty crime thrillers, as well as readers who appreciate atmospheric storytelling and complex characters, will find this volume compelling.

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A brutal two-punch of savage noir thrillers, collected in English for the first time.

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The second of two volumes presenting all four hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi.

Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot β€” Martin Terrier, killer-for-hire, needs just one more big job so that he can turn in his guns for good and return home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But soon, he's on the run β€” not only from the authorities and his treacherous ex-clients, but also from a crime syndicate seeking revenge for an earlier hit on one of theirs.

In Run Like Crazy, Run Like Hell, philanthropist Michael Hartog hires Julie, just out of a psychiatric asylum, as a nanny. But he plans to fake the kidnapping of his son, Peter β€” and frame Julie for it. But Julie is no pushover, and soon, Julie and Peter are on the run, pursued by the police, and by Hartog's enforcer, the hulking contract killer, Thompson.

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The stories in Streets of Paris are absorbing, enigmatic, counterintuitive, and sometimes offbeat. The images don't just echo the narrative, they propel it forward, convey mood, and expanded my notion of the types of stories that noir can tell.-- "Kirkus"

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683963202

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 October 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Translated by Kim Thompson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 196

About the Author

Tardi is a pioneering, internationally award-winning European cartoonist. His Adele Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and the animated film April and the Extraordinary World was inspired by his cartooning. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats. The Marseilles-born Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) authored ten short, tough-minded, highly acclaimed crime novels, as well as a multitude of other books, screen- and teleplays, magazine columns, and translations of American crime and science fiction novels. A lifelong comics fan, he also wrote the hardboiled graphic novel Griffu for Jacques Tardi in 1978, and in the late 1980s, was selected to translate the French edition of Watchmen.

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