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A love triangle explodes into something more sinister in this crime thriller from "the best suspense writer going, bar none" (New York Times).
Joe 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 least, it's livable.
Everything changes when Joe falls for the housemaid Carol, and the two can't keep it a secret from Elizabeth. Elizabeth won't leave Joe the theater unless he provides for her . . . but he's put all his money into the show house.
Carol and Joe's only hope is the life insurance policies they've taken out on each other. If one of them were to be presumed dead, they'd have more than enough money to solve all their problems . . .
No one knows murder better than Jim Thompson and in this incisive foray into the dark dealings of the mid-20th century movie industry, he doesn't disappoint, in the riveting story of a love triangle gone horribly wrong, and just how far one man will go to hold on to a desperate dream.
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"Not Thompson's best, but still a solid work of pulpy fiction. Tough to beat his own The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me, After Dark My Sweet, The Grifters, and even also-ran greats such as The Nothing Man, Texas By the Tail and Savage Night. Gritty schtuff."
— Aaron (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Full of atmosphere, this has a fabuloulsy old-school feel. But there’s nothing cozy about this sharp vision of corrupt small-town life.”
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“Thompson is both a brilliant and entirely uncompromising writer, and here in place of sentiment and salvation is the real and unflinching, bitter unraveling of the American dream.”
— Glasgow Herald
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" another classic. Wilmot is the textbook amoral anti-hero, cast in the role of small town businessman. doesn't sound exciting? just read the book. great twist at the end. "
— Rob, 12/8/2013 -
" as pulp goes, this one is perfectly crafted. "
— Neil, 7/25/2013 -
" 3 1/2. This is the only Thompson I've read. Loved the movie house setting. Need to pick up some more of his. "
— Karen, 6/27/2013 -
" Sometimes a man and woman love and hate each other in equal measure that they can neither stay together nor break apart. Some marriages can only end in murder and some murders only make the ties of love and hatred stronger. This book proves just that. "
— Eddy, 3/31/2013 -
" permeated by a sense of ineluctable doom. good riff on love/hate relationships. "
— Todd, 1/9/2013 -
" Another masterpiece of hardboiled crime fiction elevated by the way Thompson depicts the desperation and frality of the characters. "
— James, 8/19/2012 -
" noir-ish crime novel set in the old movie-house days -- like but didn't love. Might not be Thompson's best, though, I should give him another try. "
— Adam, 4/20/2012
About Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson (1906–1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. He eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals, and two screenplays, for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory. An outstanding crime writer, he created a world of fiction rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, he was both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir such as The Killer inside Me, After Dark My Sweet, and The Grifters.
About R. C. Bray
R. C. Bray is an award-winning audiobook narrator with over 180 titles to his credit. Besides winning five AudioFile Earphones Awards, he won the prestigious Audie Award in 2015 for Best Science Fiction Narration and has been an Audie Award finalist seven times. He has been a finalist for the Voice Arts Award, and in 2014, his narration earned a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. He is also an accomplished producer and voice-over artist, and his voice can be heard in countless TV and radio commercials.