Desperado as Commodity: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Alex Harvey, 26 May 2022
When Jean-Patrick Manchette was asked about his first encounter with detective fiction, he mentioned a scene from Black Wings Has My Angel by the American writer Elliott Chaze. Originally published in 1953, this obscure lovers-on-the-run thriller was only available, until recently, in French translation.*
She was sitting on the floor, naked, in a skitter of green bills … scooping up...