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Nothing Man
eReads 1954; US$ 9.99Clinton Brown isnít such a bad guy. Heís a typical intelligent, handsome, divorced man. Well, there is his ex-wife who wonít leave him the hell alone, but besides that he leads a pretty normal life. Except...heís missing something. He is so desperate to recover it that he may have been driven to murder. Heís trying to get himself... more...
Now and on Earth
eReads 1942; US$ 9.99America's low-key high priest of human vice and violently wounded psyches, Jim Thompson emerged from the darkness with this, his first novel. NOW AND ON EARTH is proof that Thompson has always been the bleak and compassionate teller of tawdry terror that critics and fans have come to treasure. Amid the fresh landscape and smooth illusions of wartime... more...
Roughneck
eReads 1954; US$ 9.99ROUGHNECK is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding the rails in the 30's to getting drunk... more...
Savage Night
eReads 1953; US$ 9.99First-class criminal Carl Bigelow has a difficult job ahead of him. How can he kill one-time hoodlum Jake Winroy without making it look like a hit? The man is about to turn evidence in to the authorities, threatening to bring the law down on the powerful crime syndicate that runs the city. Allowing Jake Winroy to live could be very bad for the career... more...
South of Heaven
eReads 1967; US$ 9.99Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas pipeline with a motley work crew of hoboes, alcoholics, jail-birds, and petty criminals, Tommy Burwell knows that he isn't doing himself any favors. But he cannot extricate... more...
The Alcoholics
eReads 1953; US$ 9.99Dr. Peter Murphy, director of an alcohol rehabilitation center, has faith that with proper help, alcoholics can beat their problem. The orderlies and nurses in the clinic think otherwise; they say the only thing that's going to cure these people is a shot of whiskey. The story seems pretty simple--but not with Jim Thompson! In addition to this... more...
The Golden Gizmo
eReads 1954; US$ 9.99One of Thompson's most outrageous works of fiction, THE GOLDEN GIZMO incorporates elements of the classic American tall tale with descriptions of the hardboiled criminal underclass of 1950's L.A. Hustler Toddy Kent seeks out sources of easy money in the most unlikely places thanks to a sixth-sense he has, known as a 'gizmo,' after the... more...
Nothing More than Murder
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 9.99Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't the life Joe imagined for himself, at the very... more...
The Nothing Man
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 9.99War 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... more...
Pop. 1280
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 4.99Nick 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... more...









