The Killer Inside Me

The best suspense writer going, bar none * NEW YORK TIMES *I don’t read many books twice but Jim Thompson novels - due to their concise, dirty power, their relentless violence and purity - can always draw me in for a second time. Some of the most psychological crime writing ever done. I love James M Cain and Elmore Leonard but Jim Thompson holds a special place in my heart.Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered – Stanley KubrickI’d never read anything like the books he turned out in the ‘50s and ‘60s. His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny…extraordinary * INDEPENDENT *Thompson captured the spirit of his Age, and the spirit of the 20th Century’s latter half: emptiness, a feeling of loss in a land of plenty, of unease amid conformity, of alienation – Stephen King

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory).