Pandemic: "NADA" by Jean-Patrick Manchette

 Pandemic: NADA by Jean-Patrick Macnhette, 1972 (2019 this translation), 9781681373171.

Revolutionaries in early '70s Paris kidnap the U.S. Ambassador to France. Trouble ensues.

This was fun. A neat time capsule. 

• Revolutionaries differing over politics while teamed together. 
• Revolutionaries with waning dedication and idealists. 
• Idealistic revolutionaries vs. realistic revolutionaries. Drunken louts who're there for no reason in particular.
• Brutal police willing to torture for answers. 
• Police willing to work nonstop to find kidnappers and murderers. 
• High end bordellos.
• Walther PP love.
• Shoe-string operation with beat up cars and an old farm hideout.
• Police willing to shoot up the whole damn farm and kill anyone inside. Fuck arresting, charging, and trying; just shoot them.