Command Performance

by Jean Echenoz

Mark Polizzotti (Translator)

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A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.

“Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the hard-boiled genre, which plays like The Big Lebowski on the Seine.” —Publishers Weekly

Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the métier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering. At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then co-opted by one...Read more
  • ISBN10 1681378558
  • ISBN13 9781681378558
  • Publish Date 11 March 2025
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
  • Imprint NYRB Classics