TRANSLATOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I AM MOST grateful to Doug Headline for his continuing support; to Alyson Waters, my partner in the attempt to bring the rest of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s noir fiction into English; and to New York Review Books for their generous embrace of that project. I must also thank Cathy Pozzo di Borgo and Colby Sadeghi for their help with translation problems. Most of all, as countless times in the past, I am indebted to Mia Nadezhda Rublowska, not only for every sort of tangible and intangible help but also for her close critical reading of the translation against the French.

—D. N.-S.