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01744aam a2200313 i 4500 001 D806275A134F11E6AEBAE1B2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160506010032 008 150303r20152002cau 000 1 eng d 010 $a bl2015008784 020 $a 0872866645 020 $a 9780872866645 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 14 $a PQ2673.A452 $b P6713 2015 082 04 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Manchette, Jean-Patrick, $d 1942-1995, $e author. 240 10 $a Position du tireur coucheÌ. $l English 245 14 $a The gunman / $c Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by James Brook. 264 1 $a San Francisco, California : $b City Lights Books, $c [2015]. 300 $a 155 pages ; $c 19 cm. 520 $a Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone shooting position. A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as bodies. 520 8 $a Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942b?"1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of stodgy police procedurals, restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Manchette is a totem to a generation of French mystery writers, and his stories have inspired several films, including Claude Chabrol's "Nada.". 650 0 $a Assassins $v Fiction. 651 0 $a France $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Brook, James, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160506010137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D806275A134F11E6AEBAE1B2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search