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Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell
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This gritty, noir graphic novel is ideal for fans of crime fiction and graphic novels who appreciate dark, suspenseful stories with complex characters and moral ambiguity.
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Michel Hartog, a rich industrialist, hires a troubled young woman, Julie, straight out of the psychiatric asylum to which she has been consigned for several years, to work as a nanny for his bratty nephew Peter. But Hartog's seemingly altruistic impulse hides a darker motive. He plans to stage a fake kidnapping of his nephew and use Julie as a scapegoat. Unfortunately for Hartog, Julie proves infinitely more tough and resourceful than he expected as the kidnapping goes horribly wrong.
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Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell offers a gripping introduction to the talents of cartoonist Jacques Tardi and novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette. The graphic novel delivers a tense, dark noir tale filled with murder, betrayal, and corruption, executed with vivid artwork and a compelling narrative. Reviewers praise it for its thrilling atmosphere and complex characters, with Nathan Evans noting its intense dread familiar to Manchette fans and Jason Sacks highlighting the book's exciting, bleak storytelling and beautiful illustrations.
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ISBN: 9781606996201
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 February 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Illustration: 1 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Doug Headline
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 184.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 572g
Pages: 104
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About the Author
Doug Headline is the son of Jean-Patrick Manchette, and a prominent French journalist, editor, writer and director. Tardi is a pioneering, internationally award-winning European cartoonist. His Adèle Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and the animated film April and the Extraordinary World was inspired by his cartooning. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats. The Marseilles-born Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) authored ten short, tough-minded, highly acclaimed crime novels, as well as a multitude of other books, screen- and teleplays, magazine columns, and translations of American crime and science fiction novels. A lifelong comics fan, he also wrote the hardboiled graphic novel Griffu for Jacques Tardi in 1978, and in the late 1980s, was selected to translate the French edition of Watchmen.
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