France’s Favourite Criminal
Douglas Johnson, 7 August 1980
Mesrine: the Life and Death of a Super-crook
by Carey Schofield.
Penguin, 201 pp., £95, April 1980,0 14 005607 6 Show More
by Carey Schofield.
Penguin, 201 pp., £95, April 1980,
“... all the intensity of a massacre. Afterwards the police congratulated and embraced each other, as Carey Schofield puts it in her book, like members of a football team who had just scored a goal. The Minister of the Interior rushed to the Elysée Palace in order to receive the congratulations of the President. Commissioners and inspectors hastily called a ... ”