France's Public Enemy Number One from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s--when he was killed by police in a sensational traffic shootout--Jacques Mesrine (1936–1979) is the best-known criminal in French history. Mesrine was notorious both for his violent exploits and for the media attention he attracted, and he remains very much a public media figure in France and Europe. In 2008 there were two feature-length films based on his life, one of them starring Vincent Cassel in the lead role. Mesrine wrote The Death Instinct while serving time in the high-security prison La Santé; the manuscript was smuggled out of the prison and was later published by Guy Debord's publisher Gérard Lebovici (who briefly adopted Mesrine's daughter, Sabrina, before being assassinated, a few years after Mesrine). The Death Instinct deals with the early years of Mesrine's criminal life, including a horrifically graphic description of a murder he committed early on in his career and a highly detailed account of the workings of the French criminal underworld--making this book perhaps one of the most intriguing and detailed anthropological studies of a criminal culture ever written.

The Death Instinct

Biographies & Memoirs

MESRINE, Jacques

True Crime

TamTam Books

Der Todestrieb.

Edition Nautilus

Raras son las ocasiones en las que podemos tener entre las manos un documento como éste, la narración en primera persona de la vida y la actividad criminal de quien fuera considerado en Francia y Canadá, durante los años setenta, el «enemigo público número uno»: Jacques Mesrine (1939-1979). Haciendo gala de gran talento narrativo, Mesrine recapitula sus correrías por medio mundo (Francia, España, Italia, Suiza, Canadá, Estados Unidos) y relata, con todo lujo de detalles, lo mismo sus atracos, robos, asesinatos y espectaculares fugas, que sus amores, amistades, certezas y esperanzas. Federico Corriente ha revisado para esta edición la traducción original de Jesús Romé.

Instinto de muerte: La autobiografía del enemigo público número uno

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