Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort – 23 February 2011) was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions.
Jean Lartéguy
Author details
- Born:
- Sept. 5, 1920
- Died:
- Feb. 23, 2011
