Marcel Duhamel Livres

"Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.

- Roulez à trente à l'heure, ordonna l'homme d'une voix tendue, anxieuse. je vous indiquerai le chemin. Quand nous serons arrivés, il faudra descendre de voiture et courir jusqu'au mur. Le projecteur sera braqué sur l'endroit où vous devez passer, tenez-vous immobiles dans le rayon lumineux. Dès que le faisceau sera déplacé, commencez à grimper. Vous aurez quatre-vingt-dix secondes. Vous monterez le premier, dit-il à Leamas, et puis ce sera au tour de la fille. Le livre qui a révolutionné le roman d'espionnage.