POP. 1280

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By: Jim Thompson

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Paperback | 14 September 2023 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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With a new introduction by Charlie Higson

'Fantastic ... in my book Jim Thompson is still the greatest crime writer' Jo Nesbo

'The best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES

'Jim Thompson holds a special place in my heart' Bruce Springsteen

Nick Corey likes being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the upcoming elections and the women who adore him.

And it turns out that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.

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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 - NEW YORK TIMES

My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson - Stephen King

Thompson's writing is dense, lurid, idiomatic, musical in its speech rhythms...alternatively plaintive and obscene...raucous and bitterly funny - Village Voice

A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist ... violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving ... a classic American novelist - Kirkus Reviews

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 - Washington Post

A master of the noir crime novel. His vision of small town America ... is uniquely compelling - Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction

The toughest crime novels ever - Newsweek

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