'The Second Wind') is a 1958 novel by the French writer José Giovanni.
It is about the aging French gangster Gustave "Gu" Minda who escapes from prison and becomes entangled in a plot to rob a security van in Marseille.
It was Giovanni's second novel and was published in the Série noire collection of éditions Gallimard.
[1] The novel is the basis for the 1966 film Le deuxième souffle directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and its 2007 remake The Second Wind directed by Alain Corneau.
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