Savage Night
Autor Jim Thompson Cuvânt înainte de Mark Winegardneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2014
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316403825
ISBN-10: 0316403822
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 0316403822
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
Notă biografică
Jim
Thompson
was
born
in
Anadarko,
Oklahoma.
He
began
writing
fiction
at
a
very
young
age,
selling
his
first
story
toTrue
Detectivewhen
he
was
only
fourteen.
Thompson
eventually
wrote
twenty-nine
novels,
all
but
three
of
which
were
published
as
paperback
originals.
Thompson
also
co-wrote
two
screenplays
(for
the
Stanley
Kubrick
filmsThe
KillingandPaths
of
Glory).
Several
of
his
novels
have
been
filmed
by
American
and
French
directors,
resulting
in
classic
noir
includingThe
Killer
Inside
Me(1952),After
Dark
My
Sweet(1955),
andThe
Grifters(1963).
Recenzii
"The
best
suspense
writer
going,
bar
none."—The
New
York
Times
"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never duplicated."—Stephen King
"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich would 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
"Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff for 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."—The New Republic
"The master of the American groin-kick novel."—Vanity Fair
"The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime fiction."—Chicago Tribune
"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never duplicated."—Stephen King
"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich would 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
"Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff for 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."—The New Republic
"The master of the American groin-kick novel."—Vanity Fair
"The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime fiction."—Chicago Tribune