Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot

About this book

The Tardi/Manchette team of West Coast Blues reunites for another brutal neo-noir classic. Like many of the greatest noir thrillers Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot begins with a classic even clichd set-up: Martin Terrier the hired killer needs just one more big job so that he can turn in his guns return to his native village to find and marry his childhood sweetheart and retire. But nothing goes as expected his last job turns out to be a set-up that results in a bloody shoot-out from which Terrier barely escapes with his life and soon hes on the run from not only the authorities and his treacherous ex-bosses but also the members of a crime syndicate still seeking revenge for an earlier hit on one of theirs. (We wont even mention what they do to his cat.) With Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot Tardi at the top of his form once again puts his lushly efficient neo-clear-line style in the service of Manchettes gleefully brisk prose for a spectacularly dark violent and fast-paced crime thriller that will delight fans of their previous collaboration West Coast Blues. (NOTE: Manchettes original 1981 novel La Position du tireur couch was released in English under the title The Prone Gunman by City Lights in 2001.) 104 pages of black-and-white comics