# The Mad and the Bad

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- Book: [The Mad and the Bad](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-patrick-manchette/the-mad-and-the-bad) ([The Mad and the Bad.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-patrick-manchette/the-mad-and-the-bad.md))
- Authors: [Jean-Patrick Manchette](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-patrick-manchette), [James Sallis](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-sallis), [Donald Nicholson-Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-nicholson-smith)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-720-4
- Pages: 184
- Published: 2014-07-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense ...