{"product_id":"the-ngustro-affair-9781681375120","title":"The n'Gustro Affair","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Jean-Patrick Manchette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40843783602357,"sku":"9781681375120","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_20cc32f5-b676-4d04-8718-079ed5710790.jpg?v=1629809913","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ngustro-affair-9781681375120","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}