{"product_id":"9781590177402","title":"The Mad and the Bad","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and  famous philanthropist whose immense  fortune has just grown that much  greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his  orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson  is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after  Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape.  Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe craziness is just getting started. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166204379376,"sku":"9781590177402","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177402_p0.jpg?v=1763809426","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}