Killer Inside Me
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 w...
Texas by the Tail
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.
Pop. 1280
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,
The Nothing Man
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.
After Dark, My Sweet
A classic crime novel about a kidnapping scheme gone wrong from Jim Thompson's, America's 'Dimestore Dostoevsky.' William 'Kid' Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution. One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young widow. She is smart and decent -- at least when she's sober. Soon Collins finds himself involved in a kidnapping scheme that goes drastically wrong almost before it even begins. Because the kid they've picked up isn't like other kids: he's diabetic and without insulin, he'll die. Not the safest situation for Collins, a man for whom stress and violence have long gone hand-in-hand. After Dark, My Sweet once again displays Jim Thompson as the undisputed master of American noir. The basis of James Foley's critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, Thompson's classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people all-too-easily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down.
Grifters
Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek). 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral c...
Getaway
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 wr...
Savage Night
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
Mördaren I Mig
»Ett mänskligt och moraliskt mörker som får Raymond Chandler att framstå som en blid melankoliker. En odiskutabel noir-klassiker« AFTONBLADET»Romanens sista fjärdedel är ett nästan outhärdligt mästarprov av Thompson.« SYDSVENSKAN»Förmodligen den mest skrämmande och trovärdiga förstapersonsskildring av en förvriden kriminell hjärna som jag någonsin stött på.« STANLEY KUBRIKLou Ford är vicesheriff i den lilla Texas-staden Central City, en harmlös och pålitlig man, hunsad av sin flickvän och full av fånig livsvisdom. Då dyker Joyce Lakeland upp i stan, och väcker känslor i Lou som varit sovande i många, många år. Med sin oblyga sexualitet manar hon fram mörka minnen i honom, minnen av något som är hela Central Citys smutsiga lilla hemlighet.Vem ska kunna sätta stopp för galenskaperna när lagens väktare plötsligt tar rättvisan i sina egna, blodiga händer?»Det amerikanska 1950-talets främsta noir-författare.« SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Romanens sista fjärdedel är ett nästan outhärdligt mästarprov av Thompson; en andlös, oförglömlig, blixtrande snabb inre monolog som samtidigt är en nedstigning i ett själsligt helvete. Porträttet av Ford är briljant och isande; en av de mest övertygande av kriminallitteraturens psykopater.« JOHN-HENRI HOLMBERG, SYDSVENSKANJIM THOMPSON [1906 1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Mördaren i mig, som gavs ut första gången 1952, är boken som gjorde Thompson till pulpförfattaren framför andra. Ett flertal av hans böcker, bland annat Mördaren i mig, har filmatiserats.
Getaway
»För den som vill ha sin deckare rå som sushi.«| Göteborgsposten»Den störste kriminalförfattaren av dem alla.« | New York TimesDoc McCoys skicklighet som brottsling vet nästan inga gränser. Men inte ens för McCoy finns det något sådant som ett perfekt bankrån - inte utan en perfekt flykt.På grund av en förrädisk och klumpig partner får bankrånet i stället förödande konsekvenser. Ett enda litet misstag kastar Doc McCoy rakt in i ett helvete präglat av blod, svek och kaos - till brädden fyllt av våld och bristande lojaliteter - där ingen handling är utan baktanke.Getaway är boken som alla andra bankrånsskildringar måste mäta sig mot. Såväl Steve McQueen och Alec Baldwin har axlat rollen som Doc McCoy på vita duken. Men det är mest av allt Jim Thompsons mörka, skitiga prosa som gör Getaway till ett sådant mästerverk i sin genre.I översättning av Inge R. L. Larsson.JIM THOMPSON [1906-1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Han har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker och räknas, tillsammans med Raymond Chandler och James Ellroy, som en av de främsta - och mest hårdkokta - noirförfattarna genom tiderna. Modernista ger nu ut Jim Thompsons två största klassiker: Getaway från 1958 och Grifters från 1963.
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A Hell of a Woman
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.
The Killer Inside Me
In The Killer Inside Me, America's 'Dimestore Dostoevsky' Jim 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 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. 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
The Grifters
Jim Thompson's classic The Grifters is one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for the critically acclaimed film by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorcese. 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.
Grifters
»För den som vill ha sin deckare rå som sushi.« Göteborgsposten»Den störste kriminalförfattaren av dem alla.« | New York TimesPå ytan är Roy Dillion en anspråkslös man. Men i själva verket saknar han alla former av moral. De tusen och åter tusen dollar som han gömmer i sin billiga lägenhet känner ingen annan till. Det är pengar som Roy tjänat in genom åratal av bedrägerier.När ett av Dillions svindlerier misslyckas och slutar med att han blir misshandlad börjar saker gå fel. Roy plågas av svåra inre blödningar. Dessutom väntar en gammal bekant på honom, någon som han inte träffat på många år - den mest hänsynslösa person som Roy Dillion någonsin mött: sin egen mor.Grifters har kallats en av de tuffaste kriminalromanerna genom tiderna. En berättelse om kärlek och girighet, om en cynisk värld där moralen är fullständigt död.I översättning av Einar Heckscher.JIM THOMPSON [1906-1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Han har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker och räknas, tillsammans med Raymond Chandler och James Ellroy, som en av de främsta - och mest hårdkokta - noirförfattarna genom tiderna. Modernista ger nu ut Jim Thompsons två största klassiker: Getaway från 1958 och Grifters från 1963.
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The Kill-Off
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.
