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Max and the Junkmen
Publisher
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Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle
Parution date
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1969
EAN
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2000037007391
Description
This reprint of a major French cult novel brings back to life the unforgettable inspector Max. Adapted and directed by Claude Sautet, the book was made into a celebrated movie starring Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider.
Max is obsessed with catching criminals red-handed. Intent on justice and trigger-happy, he’s been nicknamed “le Fou” (“the mad one”). Independently wealthy and aloof, he uses all his official and personal resources to make gangsters pay for their crimes. His great frustration in life is the criminals he cannot catch. Obsessed with and vexed by these professional setbacks, he decides to take the law into his own hands and hatches a devilish scheme whereby he’ll set up an old acquaintance, the small-time criminal Abel, and his prostitute friend, Lili, to perform a bank robbery. Abel mobilizes his seedy gang of thugs and ex-convicts, who work as scrap-metal mongers and are thirsty for a way out of their miserable lot in life.…
Max et les ferrailleurs is both a suspenseful thriller featuring morally ambiguous policemen, petty thieves, and a daring heist and a devastating study in the art of manipulation.
Author
Claude Néron : Born in 1926, Claude Néron dropped out of school at age thirteen and held various jobs before he became famous for his novels and screenplays.
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