Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a prolific French crime novelist, film and TV scriptwriter, translator, critic, and all-around laborer in Grub Street. His greatest achievement, almost certainly, was the cycle of ten or so dark social novels he produced in the 1970s the wake of (and much under the influence of) the May 1968 uprising in … Continue reading Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers