Savage Night
On sale
22nd July 2010
Price: £4.49
Selected:
ebook / ISBN-13: 9781409130185
Small time America…a college student…organised crime – and murder. A brilliantly dark tale from the noir master
‘The best suspense writer going, bar none’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘My favorite crime novelist – often imitated but never duplicated’ Stephen King
‘The master of the American groin-kick novel’ VANITY FAIR
Under the guise of a college student, Carl Bigelow moves into a small town and into the life of Jake Winroy, a one-time crook who now plans to testify against an organised crime figure. The tricky thing is to kill Jake without making it look like a hit. But Jake’s wife is more than willing to help Carl with anything he requires…
‘The best suspense writer going, bar none’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘My favorite crime novelist – often imitated but never duplicated’ Stephen King
‘The master of the American groin-kick novel’ VANITY FAIR
Under the guise of a college student, Carl Bigelow moves into a small town and into the life of Jake Winroy, a one-time crook who now plans to testify against an organised crime figure. The tricky thing is to kill Jake without making it look like a hit. But Jake’s wife is more than willing to help Carl with anything he requires…
Reviews
The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime fiction
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
Jim Thompson has more pistolero savvy than all the so-called great American Writers...Thompson was a hammer to their feather-dusters
Jim Thompson, the great noir writer ... contributed greatly to the turn my music took around 1978-82. [These authors] brought out a sense of geography and the dark strain in my writing, broadened my horizons about what might be accomplished with a pop song and are still the cornerstone literally for what I try to accomplish today
The best suspense writer going, bar none
My favorite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated
The master of the American groin-kick novel
Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff of rednecks, truckers, failures, psychopaths and professors ... one of the finest American writers and the most frightening, [Thompson] is on best terms with the devil. Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell
Thompson is both a brilliant and an entirely uncompromising writer, and here, in the place of sentiment and salvation is the real and unflinching, bitter unravelling of the American dream