The Death Instinct
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780966234688
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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 Sant ; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher G rard 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780966234688 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0966234685 |
| Weight | 1.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.00 x 8.90 In |
| List Price | $16.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 325 pages |
| Publisher | TamTam Books |
| Published On | 2014-10-31 |
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