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E-mail after purchase. This is a fast moving read . Jim Thompson 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. Paperback His is a unique and terrific voice within crime fiction and American letters, and to read "The Getaway" is to experience Thompson in his prime. Roy is a successful cons operator who suffers a major blow at the beginning of the story when a mark detects his scam acts and gives him what for in the belly with a massive club.Then there is Roy mother, Lilly Dillon aged 39, (she had Roy at age 14) who’s been swindling longer than Roy’s been breathing.

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Despite gaining positive critics notably by Anthony Boucher, he was little recognized in his lifetime. Author: Jim Thompson: Country: United States: Language: English: Genre: Crime novel: Publisher: Gold Medal Books: Publication date. At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything begins to fall apart. I enjoyed the two films (Steve McQueen + Ali Macgraw and Alec Baldwin + Kim Basinger), and I am looking forward to reading the book. When a man witnesses him brutalize a town prostitute, he bullies that witness before murdering and framing him. Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. Read more. Jim Thompson was born on September 27, 1906 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA as James Myers Thompson. Buy this product and stream 90 days of Amazon Music Unlimited for free. “Don’t you say I killed her,” he warns the terrified witness.

The Grifters is one of the best books ever written about the art of the con; it is a well-crafted story of betrayal and deception and a basis for Martin Scorsese and Stephen Frears acclaimed movie by the same name.The links beside each book title will take you to Amazon, who I feel are the best online retailer for books where you can read more about the book, or purchase it. When these two books generated little attention, Thompson switched to the more lucrative but less prestigious crime fiction genre. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. He takes the genre of crime fiction and twists, bends and expands it in surprising ways. She works for a big-time mobster- Bobo Justus where she travels to horse race events and places bets on for the big gambling cartels to bring the odds down.Finally, there is Moira Langtry, Roy’s older lover who bears some resemblance to Roy’s mother and somehow a shitty person in her right. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

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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. Audible Audiobook 13

You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. , Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s It’s no wonder that American novelist Norman Mailer called the 1950s “When Jim Thompson published “The Killer Inside Me,” Lion Books nominated it for the National Book Award, calling it “The writer’s fiction dismantles point-by-point the classical hard-boiled heroes whose word was good and whose ethics were reliable.

The book featured little crime and violence that later filled his writing, and even though it was positively reviewed, the book was poorly sold. Everything starts to unfold when Ford discovers that there may be one witness who could bring down his carefully crafted “house of cards” smashing down. Jim Thompson, author of popular crime novels like The Getaway and The Grifters, appears in the film as Judge Grayle.

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