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Wild Town

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By Jim Thompson

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On Sale
Aug 5, 2014
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown Paperbacks
ISBN-13
9780316404044

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David “Bugs” McKenna can’t seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time–or the wrong thing, every chance he gets.

But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast–and odds are, it’ll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs’ new employer…

In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man’s life can take a turn for the worse.

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
Bad Boy
Bad Boy
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
The Grifters
The Grifters
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me
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