{"product_id":"9780966234688","title":"Death Instinct","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrance'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 \u003ci\u003eThe Death Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e while serving time in the high-security prison La Santé; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher Gérard Lebovici (who briefly adopted Mesrine's daughter, Sabrina, before being assassinated, a few years after Mesrine). \u003ci\u003eThe Death Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TamTam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009894203632,"sku":"9780966234688","price":11.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780966234688_p0.jpg?v=1763876220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780966234688","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}