The Mad and the Bad

An NYRB Classics Original

Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction

Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate.

The craziness is just getting started.

Like Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 07/15/2014
ISBN: 9781590177204
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.41d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/02/2014
Booklist 07/01/2014 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2014
Shelf Awareness 07/22/2014
New Yorker (The) 08/11/2014 pg. 87