The Wicked Go to Hell by Frederic Dard

The Wicked Go to Hell by Frederic Dard

A taut psychological prison-thriller from Frederic Dard, one of France's most popular post-war authors

Fast-moving.. a one-sitting read Independent A typically fast-paced, brutal and smart offering from the prolific French writer Sunday Times Crime Club A great thing to have it newly on the shelves for people to discover Bookbag Absolutely outstanding Raven Crime Reads The prison is eerie, the action hard-hitting and the obscure friendship very compelling. Dard provides us with a fast-paced mystery thriller about two inmates who become adversaries, only to discover that beneath every rivalry lies a strange respect for the other International Crime Fiction No question: for me, he was the greatest -- Philippe Geluck The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine Le Figaro His language is cutting, his point-of-view original and his verdict uncompromising... One of the few twentieth-century authors to win both critical acclaim and great popularity Solidarite Militaire France's most popular post-war author L'Express

Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps, forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo. Dard's Bird in a Cage, Crush and The Gravediggers' Bread are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.

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ISBN 13	9781782271963
ISBN 10	1782271961
Title	The Wicked Go to Hell
Author	Frederic Dard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2016-08-04
Number of pages	160
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