The Prone Gunman (French: La Position du tireur couché) is a thriller novel written by Jean-Patrick Manchette, published in 1981 in the Série noire collection...

including that of Blueberry, has been collected in the 1983 artbook "Le tireur solitaire". Aside from its professional importance, Giraud's stint at Hachette...

de la côte ouest) and The Prone Gunman (from the French La Position du tireur couché). Seven other novels, Fatale, The Mad and the Bad (from the French...

l'étrangleur [fr] (Casterman, 2006), based on a novel by Pierre Siniac La Position du tireur couché (Futuropolis, 2010), based on a novel by Manchette Ô dingos, ô châteaux...

individuals fighting in the streets. A male practitioner of savate is called a "tireur" while a female one is a "tireuse". Savate de rue (lit. 'street savate')...

supported them) were "bandits" and "terrorists", maintaining that all Francs-tireurs (and said agents) were engaging in an illegal form of warfare, and, as...

entire Belgian people as an act of "preventive security" because of franc-tireur attacks, and thus the Rape of Belgium was an act of German restraint; similarly...

leading titles were Combat, Libération, Défense de la France, and Le Franc-Tireur. Each paper was the organ of a separate resistance network, and funds were...

intelligence, particularly military-related intelligence. "FTP" (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans): a network created in 1942 and run by the PCF, based in Paris...