Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE was a French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic and translator. His novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman are also available in English.
Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated work by Guy Debord, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Antonin Artaud and Guillaume Apollinaire.
The hunters were six in number, men mostly fifty or older, but also two younger ones with sarcastic expressions. They all wore check shirts, sheepskin jackets, waterproof khaki trench coats, more or less high boots, and caps. One of the two younger guys was all skin and bone, and one of the fifty-year-olds, a bespectacled pharmacist with white hair in a crew cut, was fairly thin.