Contract killer Martin Terrier plans on completing one final assassination then retiring to a quiet life alongside his long lost girlfriend. As these things often go, his employers have a different idea. Reminiscent of the classic Michael Winner-helmed and Charles Bronson-starred The Mechanic, Tardi's follow up to his acclaimed adaptation of the Manchette crime novel [b:West Coast Blues|6621343|West Coast Blues|Jacques Tardi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251248786s/6621343.jpg|6815511], Like A Sniper Lining Up His Shot ([b:La Position du tireur couché|248681|The Prone Gunman (City Lights Noir)|Jean-Patrick Manchette|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173122416s/248681.jpg|240957]) delivers a superior sequential thriller. Violent, sexy, and littered with enough shocks to excite the most hardened crime fiction fan, Tardi once again produces one of the finest examples of the genre. ( )

Another extremely hard boiled graphic novel adaptation by Tardi of a novel by Manchette. A well worn premise of a burnt out hit man completing what he planned to be his last assignment, being followed by his former employers, and eventually cornered into completing just one job -- which goes badly wrong. And a lot of bodies and mayhem along the way.

Like West Coast Blues, also a Tardi adaption of a Manchette novel, it works well in the relatively sparse black-and-white illustrations. And is probably a better way to experience the work than reading Manchette's actual novels, at least based on the one actual novel of his I've read. ( )

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Another extremely hard boiled graphic novel adaptation by Tardi of a novel by Manchette. A well worn premise of a burnt out hit man completing what he planned to be his last assignment, being followed by his former employers, and eventually cornered into completing just one job -- which goes badly wrong. And a lot of bodies and mayhem along the way.

Like West Coast Blues, also a Tardi adaption of a Manchette novel, it works well in the relatively sparse black-and-white illustrations. And is probably a better way to experience the work than reading Manchette's actual novels, at least based on the one actual novel of his I've read. ( )