Fatale

Brought to you by Penguin.Murder isn't always ugly.Aimee is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she arrives in the backwater town of Bleville - a festering stew of grudges, corruption, and small-town rot - ready to make a killing.She's played this game before: stir up trouble, pit the locals against one another, then disappear with blood on her hands and money in her pocket. But this time, something breaks. Aimee lets someone in - and the game turns personal.Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the crime novel into a weapon of satire and stylish mayhem. Fatale is his bloodiest, funniest, and most brilliantly unhinged work: a riot of revenge, farce, and gleeful destruction.PRAISE FOR JEAN-PARICK MANCHETTE'Manchette was Le Homme... We must revere him now and rediscover him this very instant. ' James Ellroy'Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention' James Sallis'Manchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know, and with good reason: his novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one' Duane Swierczynski(c) Jean-Patrick Manchette 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026