Sharecropper Hell, Paperback - Jim Thompson

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. 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. I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor...

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...

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

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. 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...

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. 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'...

Reducere. 1. Earth Blues2. Somewhere3. Hear My Train A Comin'4. Bleeding Heart5. Let Me Move You6. Izabella7. Easy Blues8. Crash Landing9. Inside Out10. Hey ...

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...

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Reducere. Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack sho...

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. Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account bala...

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...

Swimming with the Blowfish is the definitive account of the rise, fall and rebirth of the band that offered an irresistible alternative to the grun...

Reducere. This book is a compilation of histories-both personal and general-including all Seabee units that served on Iwo but concentrating primarily on the ...

Reducere. DescriptionA bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of Sou...

The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry

Reducere. Disappointed with her romantic prospects in Hell, a demon ascends to Earth's surface on a quest for loving tenderness from human men. Disappointmen...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of the life of a black man who lived from just after emancipation to the boycotts and sit-ins of the 1950s and 1960s -- this b...

Reducere. "A story of daring in a time of great danger ... of two unknown heroes working for justice."--Dennis Flannigan, Washington State Representative, 20...

Reducere. Always wear a bicycle helmet and use a light at dusk! Your life can change in an instant...but...life goes on. Don't trust anyone! "Shut up and get...

The bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence - where did the ideas of heaven and ...