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The Death Instinct

By (author) Jacques Mesrine
Introduction by Robert Greene
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Tam Tam Books, Los Angeles, United States
Published: 31st Oct 2014
Dimensions: w 146mm h 233mm d 32mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN-10: 0966234685
ISBN-13: 9780966234688
Barcode No: 9780966234688
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Synopsis
The legendary autobiography of Jacques Mesrine, France's most infamous criminal 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 Sante; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher Gerard 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.

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