"This is lean, mean noir fiction that cleverly sends up the tough guy genre while incarnating it perfectly."–Detroit Free Press
"Jean-Patrick Manchette's terse prose moves like the swift, almost automatic methods and mannerisms of his protagonist."–The Wall Street Journal
"Terse behaviorist prose . . . drives the narrative relentlessly and even gleefully forward. . . . For the first time, readers can experience in English translation the masterful thriller considered Manchette's finest, proof positive that the French knew what they were talking about when they labeled this sort of novel 'noir'."–Publishers Weekly
"Manchette is a master of both economy and irony. Brutal and bracing: Terrier's tale fascinates even as it chills."–Kirkus Reviews
