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Next came ''Fatale'', the story of Aimée Joubert, a female killer-for-hire who shatters the apparent quietness of a small seaside town with devastating results. The book was rejected by the Série Noire as too literary and released as a mainstream novel. Manchette qualified this as an "experimental novel" more than a thriller.
In 1981, he wrote "[[La Position du Tireur Couché]]" (''The Prone Gunman'' / ''Like a Sniper lining up his shot''), a radical [[Behaviorism|behaviorist]] writing experience based on a classic Noir theme. Martin Terrier, a young hitman eager to retire, becomes a victim of the world he lives in. His attempted return to his home town ends up in mayhem, and his glamorous image is destroyed as he loses the woman he loves, the money he saved, the one friend he has left, and finally, his marksmanship. The novel has been translated from French into English by poet and editor, James Brook, and was published by [[City Lights Bookstore|City Lights Publishers]] in 2002 ({{ISBN|9780872864023}}). "The Prone Gunman" was named "Top Mystery Book of 2002" by the New York Times Book Review.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100822880&fa=description |title=The Prone Gunman, City Lights Noir (description) |publisher=Citylights.com |date=2002-06-01 |accessdate=2015-10-17}}</ref> In 2015, the novel was made into a film called ''[[The Gunman (2015 film)|The Gunman]]'', directed by [[Pierre Morel]], starring [[Sean Penn]], [[Javier Bardem]] and [[Peter Franzén|Peter Franzen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2515034/|title=The Gunman (2015)|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2015-10-17}}</ref>
In the following years, while being regularly named by the press as the father of the neo-polar, Manchette no longer published novels, but kept writing for film and television, translating novels and writing articles on the detective novel and on film. He believed he had gone full circle with his last novel, which he conceived as a "closure" of his Noir fiction. Manchette explained in a 1988 letter to a journalist: {{Blockquote |" After that, as I did not have to belong to any kind of literary school, I entered a very different work area. In seven years, I have not done anything good. I'm still working at it."}}
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