Grifters, Paperback - Jim Thompson

Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).

Reducere. To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just with...

Reducere. Ucigasul din mine, o poveste de o cruzime si o luciditate fara precedent in literatura noir, il plaseaza pe Jim Thompson printre marii autori ai ge...

Reducere. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pi...

Reducere. Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything ...

Reducere. 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...

Reducere. In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" ...

Reducere. Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A re...

Reducere. Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But w...

Reducere. Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddlem...

Reducere. "Gizmo" is the GI term for the unidentifiable--and that's the way that Toddy Kent has begun to think of the reasons behind the rapid swing of his d...

Reducere. Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ra...

Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he's got some mighty tall odds stacked against him - a brutal sh...

Reducere. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow ...

Reducere. War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man fo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the rural town of Verdon, Nebraska, in the early days of the 20th century, you can't go ten feet without running into one of the Farg...

Reducere. Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrep...

Reducere. William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution. One afternoon he meets F...

Reducere. It was supposed to be only a temporary job--something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for...

THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey Affleck, directed by M...

Reducere. 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 ru...

Reducere. To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate'...

Ucigasul din mine, o poveste de o cruzime si o luciditate fara precedent in literatura noir, il plaseaza pe Jim Thompson printre marii autori ai ge...

Reducere. Jim Thompson 978-606-93510-7-9

Reducere. Ucigasul din mine, o poveste de o cruzime si o luciditate fara precedent in literatura noir, il plaseaza pe Jim Thompson printre marii autori ai ge...

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

Reducere. A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scam...

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scam...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

From award-winning, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe, a collection of his phenomenal essays published in the New Yorker, ranging from forger...

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Reducere. "Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. What more could ...

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Reducere. Who could I become, if I gave myself a chance?That's the question Beck asked herself at the age of eighteen when an unknown future threatened to en...

Publisher: Geoff Thompson LtdAuthor(s): Geoff ThompsonIllustration(s): 12 colour photographsNumber of pages: 92Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 21...

DescriptionThis small-town romance is ripped from the headlines A famous actress goes against one of America's most powerful politicians in this so...

Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters, both hanged for murder in 1923, are given further exploration in this re-evaluation of whether or ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis second chance small town romance about two hard-headed attorneys by USA Bestselling author Tess Thompson might keep you up all nigh...

Reducere. She's afraid to take risks. He's an incurable daredevil. When tragedy throws them together, will it spark a lasting devotion?Crystal Whalen isn't s...