Nada - Jean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith & Lucy Sante

Nada

By Jean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith & Lucy Sante

  • Release Date: 2019-08-27
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
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Description

This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.

The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang—or groupuscule—still retains a militant attachment to its revolutionary dreams. Bringing together an anarchist orphaned by the Spanish Civil War, a Communist veteran of the French resistance, a frustrated high-school teacher of philosophy, a timid office worker, a terminal alcoholic, and one uncompromising young woman with a house in the country, Nada sets out to kidnap the American ambassador and issue a call to arms.
 
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