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In the rural town of Verdon, Nebraska, in the early days of the
20th century, you can't go ten feet without running into one of the
Fargos. So, Grant Fargo argues to his grandfather Lincoln, it's
perfectly all right that he's desperately in love with his first
cousin, Bella-she's the only source of intelligent conversation for
miles, and in a town like Verdon, it would be hard "not" to end up
with a relative of one kind or another.
Before it all plays out, men will be murdered, jailed, tarred and
feathered or worse, and while everyone in the Fargo clan would kill
for the family deeds, God might just end up with them instead. In
HEED THE THUNDER, one of Thompson's earlier works, Thompson's
signature style collides with a sweeping picaresque of the American
prairie, in a multigenerational saga that's one part Steinbeck, two
parts Dostoyevsky, and all Jim Thompson.
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Bad Boy (Paperback)
Jim Thompson
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From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no
matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a
father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often
as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like
the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer
had before.
From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to
wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry,
to Thompson's chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of
THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the
formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous
authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that
follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style
Thompson made famous.
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Wild Town (Paperback)
Jim Thompson
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In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter,
and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his
teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right
thing at the wrong time--or the wrong thing, every chance he gets.
But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to
finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years
as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that
Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get
ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the
bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer...
In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE
KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso,
multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for
the worse.
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The Golden Gizmo (Paperback)
Jim Thompson; Foreword by James Sallis
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"Gizmo" is the GI term for the unidentifiable--and that's the way
that Toddy Kent has begun to think of the reasons behind the rapid
swing of his days. Somehow, Kent seems always to find himself
regularly confronted with The Big Break every man would kill
for--only to see it slip through his fingers.
Kent's grinding out a paycheck buying gold on the cheap and selling
it for the slimmest of profits when he stumbles into his latest,
almost mythical discovery--pure, unadulterated gold in the form of
a priceless watch he didn't "exactly" mean to steal.
Soon Kent finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of danger
involving everyone from the woman he can't seem to shake, bail
bondsmen who get word of Kent's discovery, the Treasury Department,
his pawnbroker, and a devious old man with a dog that may or may
not be able to speak English, in a rip-roaring comedy of errors and
would-you-believe-it bad luck unlike anything you've ever read.
Who ever knew one lousy watch could bring so much trouble? And how
many times can Kent avoid getting killed before his luck runs out
for good?
War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic
military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life
as a rewrite man for Pacific City's Courier. Shame has led him to
isolate himself from closest friends and even his estranged, still
faithfully devoted wife, Ellen. Only the bottle keeps him company.
But now Ellen has returned to Pacific City, and she's ready to do
whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing his
deepest secret ... a painful truth Brown would do anything to stop
from coming to light. He'd kill a whole lot of people just to keep
this one thing quiet--and soon enough, the bodies just happen to
start piling up around him...
THE NOTHING MAN is Thompson at his most psychologically astute, in
a deeply suspenseful and tragic portrait of one man's journey
through the dark side of the Postwar Boom.
Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the
declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like
her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the
thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends
her days resting on. Others want her to stop her malicious
gossip--some of which could ruin lives.
Told from multiple perspectives, The Kill-Off tells the story of a
woman not long for this earth--but who will finally take matters
into their own hands, and when? THE KILL-OFF was the basis of
Maggie Greenwald's critically acclaimed film of the same name.
Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her
movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but
Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king.
Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the
theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't the life Joe
imagined for himself, at the very least, it's livable.
Everything changes when Joe falls for the housemaid Carol, and the
two can't keep it a secret from Elizabeth. Elizabeth won't leave
Joe the theater unless he provides for her...but he's put all his
money into the show house.
Carol and Joe's only hope is the life insurance policies they've
taken out on each other. If one of them were to be presumed dead,
they'd have more than enough money to solve all their problems...
No one knows murder better than Jim Thompson and in this incisive
foray into the dark dealings of the mid-20th century movie
industry, he doesn't disappoint, in the riveting story of a love
triangle gone horribly wrong, and just how far one man will go to
hold on to a desperate dream.
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Roughneck (Paperback)
Jim Thompson
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By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a
newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a
comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel
and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he
was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to
his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking
for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.
A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK
chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright
unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's
most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or
wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard
times have never sounded so good.
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Savage Night (Paperback)
Jim Thompson; Foreword by Mark Winegardner
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Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd
worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting
ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a
bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake's got left
is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly.
Jake's to be the top witness in a major case against organized
crime--if he hasn't already kicked the bucket before the trial has
its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man
has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to
testify.
The Man's hired Charlie Little Bigger, a hit man barely five feet
tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder
Winroy in cold blood. To Little, it seems like the easiest job on
Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and
the Winroy's young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is
vulnerable. SAVAGE NIGHT is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable
and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's
fractured mind.
Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been
scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years.
When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with
dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains
of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is
brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the
law can't be bothered to investigate.
When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the
caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There
aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few
things she could do for the workers to keep afloat--an arrangement
that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when
you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace--and sometimes the
only way out is down.
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A
deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the
real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes,
the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around.
He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town,
but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have
keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your
daughter would end up with someday.
But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the
likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed
multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing
construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was
anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to
avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well,
that's perfectly all right with him.
In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have
dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the
American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne
Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's "American Psycho," in the novel that
will forever be known as "the" master performance of one of the
greatest crime novelists of all time.
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Pop. 1280 (Paperback)
Daniel Woodrell; Jim Thompson
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Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve
problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody
in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is
perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and
sleeping with all the eligible women.
Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local
pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered
reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband.
And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop
troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close
for a brother and a sister?
With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and
fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do
anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick
Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems.
In "Pop. 1280," widely regarded as a classic of mid-20th century
crime, Thompson offers up one of his best, in a tale of lust,
murder, and betrayal in the Deep South that was the basis for the
critically acclaimed French film "Coup de Torchon."
To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like
the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the
only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job,
and when it comes to women, his luck might just be the worst of
all--his girlfriend and partner-in-crime Red would double-cross him
in a heartbeat if she knew just how short on cash they really were.
And if Red ever finds out about the wife Corley neglected to
mention, there's a good chance that Corley might not survive the
night.
At first, Mitch was sure Texas would be the perfect place for him
and Red to run their game--there are players in nearly every back
room and side-street across the state and here, the pockets run
just a little deeper. But Corley forgot about one thing: Texans
don't forgive easily. And there's nothing they hate more than a
cheater.
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The Grifters (Paperback)
Andre Dubus; Jim Thompson
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To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira,
Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap
hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He
has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good
character.
Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid
hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes
from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has
effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until
the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically
injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met:
his own mother.
THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of
the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal
that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's
critically-acclaimed film of the same name.
Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob
Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended
Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see
her alive.
But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter
known only as The Captain, a district attorney who'll do anything
for a confession, and Bob's parents, who care as little for Bob as
they do for each other, guilt and innocence are little more than a
matter of perspective.
In a masterfully woven tapestry of multiple points of view, THE
CRIMINAL explores the nature of guilt and responsibility in a
psychological thriller of an entire town under the spell of an act
of brutal violence. Jim Thompson unlike you're ever read him
before.
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The Getaway (Paperback)
Jim Thompson; Foreword by Laura Lippman
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Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the
first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the
mark, everything begins to fall apart. And Doc begins to realize
that the perfect bank robbery isn't complete without the perfect
getaway to back it up.
THE GETAWAY is the classic story of a bank robbery gone horribly
wrong, where the smallest mistakes have catastrophic consequences,
and shifting loyalties lead to betrayals and chaos. The basis for
the classic Steve McQueen film of the same name, as well as a 1994
remake with Alec Baldwin, Thompson's novel set the bar for every
heist story that followed--but as Thompson's proved time and again,
nobody's ever done it better than the master.
THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first
publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey
Affleck, directed by Michael Winterbottom. 'Probably the most
chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped
mind I have ever encountered' Stanley Kubrick 'His ability to get
inside twisted minds was uncanny...extraordinary' INDEPENDENT
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small
Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little
slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then
nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him
put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap
for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while
is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and
devastating. Tense and suspenseful, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a
brilliantly sustained noir crime masterpiece.
The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research in sports psychology.Hundreds of workshops have shaped these tools for maximum effectiveness and ease of use. The lessons and activities can be used in the very next practice to make sports fun and to get the best from players. The Double-Goal Coach provides the framework for coaches and parents to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth -- allowing young athletes to enjoy sports while learning valuable life lessons.
With a new introduction by Charlie Higson 'Fantastic ... in my book
Jim Thompson is still the greatest crime writer' Jo Nesbo 'The best
suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES 'Jim Thompson holds
a special place in my heart' Bruce Springsteen Nick Corey likes
being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems
that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps
who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the
upcoming elections and the women who adore him. And it turns out
that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as
he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.
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A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
Jim Thompson; Foreword by Joe R. Lansdale
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Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and
collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't
stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the
bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money
out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths
with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being
forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't like, with men she
doesn't know--she wants out, any way she can get it. And to a man
who wants nothing of what he has, Mona sure looks like something he
actually does.
Soon Dolly and Mona find themselves involved in a scheme of
robbery, murder and mayhem that makes Dolly's blood run cold. As
Dolly's plans begin to unravel, his mind soon follows.
In A HELL OF A WOMAN, Jim Thompson offers another arresting
portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks
among his best work.
Classic crime novel by acclaimed author Jim Thompson - 'the best
suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES The story of a bank
robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the
unflinching eye of America's greatest crime writer. When it comes
to pulling off the perfect bank job, Doc McCoy wrote the book. But
with a partner like Rudy Torrento, who is not only treacherous but
insane, and a wife who is still an amateur, McCoy has forgotten
something: when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no
such thing as a clean getaway.
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