Synopses & Reviews
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"Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none." New York Times
Review
"My favorite crime novelist often imitated, but never duplicated is Jim Thompson." Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review
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"Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell." The New Republic
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"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it...his work...casts a dazzling light on the human condition." Washington Post
Synopsis
An ex-con is hired by an aging millionaire and his sexpot wife to do a job but it's nothing compared to the job they do on him!