An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident.
Like Jean-patrick Manchette\'s celebrated Fatale , The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction..
The craziness is just getting started.
Bodies accumulate.
Bullets fly.
Thompson pursues.
Julie and Peter escape.
And he hires Thompson to kill them.
Michel hires Julie to look after Peter.
Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer.
Julie is in an insane asylum.
Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat.
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident
