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Command Performance TC_Bestseller When Belle touches the Beast'sA thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master. Fans of Jean Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the hard boiled genre, which plays like The Big Lebowski on the Seine. Publishers Weekly Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the mtier of private detective, with spectacularly