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The legendary autobiography of Jacques Mesrine, France's most infamous criminal

France's Public Enemy Number One from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s--when he was killed by police in a sensational traffic shootout--Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979) is the best-known criminal in French history. Mesrine was notorious both for his violent exploits and for the media attention he attracted, and he remains very much a public media figure in France and Europe. In 2008 there were two feature-length films based on his life, one of them starring Vincent Cassel in the lead role. Mesrine wrote The Death Instinct while serving time in the high-security prison La Santé; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher Gérard Lebovici (who briefly adopted Mesrine's daughter, Sabrina, before being assassinated, a few years after Mesrine). The Death Instinct deals with the early years of Mesrine's criminal life, including a horrifically graphic description of a murder he committed early on in his career and a highly detailed account of the workings of the French criminal underworld--making this book perhaps one of the most intriguing and detailed anthropological studies of a criminal culture ever written.

Détails

Code EAN :	9780966234688
Auteur(trice):	Jacques , Mesrine
Editeur :	Tam Tam Press
Traduit par :	Robert , Greene - Catherine , Texier
Date de publication :	31-10-2014
Format :	Livre de poche
Langue(s) :	anglais
Hauteur :	226 mm
Largeur :	151 mm
Epaisseur :	27 mm
Poids :	578 gr
Stock :	à commander
Nombre de pages :	325