Jacques Tardi adapts ace crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette for the third
time in Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell. Michel Hartog, a rich industrialist, hires
a young woman, Julie, straight out of the psychiatric asylum to work as a nanny
for his bratty nephew Peter. But Hartog plans to stage a fake kidnapping of his
nephew and use Julie as a scapegoat. Unfortunately for Hartog, Julie proves
infinitely more tough and resourceful than he expected, the kidnapping goes
horribly, bloodily wrong, and now Julie and Peter are on the run, pursued both
by the police and by Hartog's goons, led by the aging but fantastically
dangerous contract killer Thompson.
In the latest Machette-Tardi neo-noir graphic novel, an industrialist hires a nanny out of an asylum, planning to use her as a scapegoat; then things go horribly wrong.