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By Jim Thompson

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On Sale
Aug 5, 2014
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown Paperbacks
ISBN-13
9780316403757

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$15.00

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$17.00 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before.

From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to Thompson’s chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous.

Genre:

  • Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Crime

Series:

  • Mulholland Classic

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True 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 films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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jim thompson

Jim Thompson

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True 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 films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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Mulholland Classic

Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil
Night Dogs
Night Dogs
A Hell of a Woman
A Hell of a Woman
Texas by the Tail
Texas by the Tail
Cropper’s Cabin
Cropper’s Cabin
Heed the Thunder
Heed the Thunder
Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280
Recoil
Recoil
Roughneck
Roughneck
Savage Night
Savage Night
South Of Heaven
South Of Heaven
After Dark, My Sweet
After Dark, My Sweet
A Swell-Looking Babe
A Swell-Looking Babe
Nothing More than Murder
Nothing More than Murder
Now and on Earth
Now and on Earth
The Alcoholics
The Alcoholics
The Criminal
The Criminal
The Getaway
The Getaway
The Golden Gizmo
The Golden Gizmo
The Kill-Off
The Kill-Off
The Nothing Man
The Nothing Man
The Rip-Off
The Rip-Off
The Transgressors
The Transgressors
Wild Town
Wild Town
The Grifters
The Grifters
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me
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